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Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo. Forced to endure the horrors of the Middle Passage, he is eventually sold to a Caribbean plantation owner where he becomes a slave and a dancer.
First publish date: 1973
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Paula Fox
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