The Middle Passage

Winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
Special Commendation, The Jane Addams Children's Book Award

"We have needed to know the truth about the Middle Passage since 1619. Many thanks to Tom Feelings for showing through his masterful drawings how we came so late and lonely to this place." --Maya Angelou

"The Middle Passage is one of the great books of our time, and Tom Feelings is one of the greatest artists of this or any century." --Professor Sterling Stuckey, author of Going Through the Storm: The Influence of African American Art in History and Slave Culture

"Tom Feelings's powerful paintings scorch the page, shaming western civilization for its crime against humanity--so intense, there is no room left for tears." --Silas H. Rhodes, Founder, School of Visual Arts

"In this powerful visual narrative, the artist Tom Feelings captures every infamy of the Atlantic slave trade. The Middle Passage is searing, uncompromising social art in the tradition of Jacob Lawrence's famed Migration Series." --Paule Marshall, author of Daughters and Praisesong for the Widow

"Feelings's art speaks to the soul in this magnificent visual record of the Black Diaspora in the Americas. . . . A powerfully rendered reality that all teens deserve the opportunity to experience." --School Library Journal

"[A] forthright and, ultimately, cathartic work of art, testimony not only to our capacity for evil, but also to the triumph of the spirit and of beauty." --Booklist