The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave : Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape (Penguin Classics) / Thompson, John/ Andrews, William (EDT)/ Gates, Henry Louis (EDT)

The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave : Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape (Penguin Classics) （Reprint）

Thompson, John/ Andrews, William (EDT)/ Gates, Henry Louis (EDT)

Penguin Classics（2011/06発売）

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製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 107 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9780143106425
DDC分類 B

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John Thompson was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in 1812. Originally published in 1856, "The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave" chronicles his enslavement, his escape, and his life in the North, where he lived as a free man until fear of recapture drove him to flee once again - this time to sea aboard the Milwood, a whaling vessel. The only fugitive slave narrator to report a whaling voyage, Thompson crafted from his seafaring experience an allegorical sermon that caps his Life and renders it a kind of African American Pilgrim's Progress, as well as a narrative of struggle with, escape from, and triumph over American slavery.