Even the most elementary description of slavery can't help but be anything but horrific. That a person would "own" another human being...how. how can this be? The Slave Dancer is not elementary in its description, yet I am sure that doesn't even come close to the actual horrors of a slave ship. This is a fictionalized account of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Jessie is kidnapped from his home in New Orleans and forced aboard a slave ship, forced into playing his flute for the kidnapped men and woman on board so that they can exercise.
A devastating story.
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