Slaveroad
แแฅแข. 2024 ยท Simon and Schuster
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โMaster of languageโ (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational position to explore what he calls the โslaveroad,โ offering โa fresh perspective of slaveryโs impact and a confirmation of Widemanโs exalted status in American lettersโ (New York magazine).
John Edgar Widemanโs Slaveroad is a groundbreaking work of โbruising candor and obsessive originalityโ (The Wall Street Journal). For centuries, the buying and selling of human beings was legal, and millions of Africans were kidnapped then forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean to serve as slaves. The enduring legacies of this slave road trafficโdenied, unacknowledged, misunderstood, repressedโcontinue to poison the experiences and journeys of all Americans.
In a section of โSlaveroad,โ called โSheppard,โ William Henry Sheppard, a descendant of enslaved Virginians, travels back to Africa where he works as a missionary, converting Africans to Christianity alongside his Southern white colleague. Wideman imagines drinking afternoon tea with Lucy Gant Sheppard, Williamโs wife, who was on her own slaveroad, as she experienced her husbandโs adultery with the African women he was trying to convert. In โPenn Station,โ Widemanโs brother, after being confined forty-four years in prison, travels from Pittsburgh to New York. As Wideman awaits his brother, he asks, โHow will I distinguish my brother from the dead. Dead passengers on the slaveroad.โ
โA blend of memoir, fiction, historyโ (The Millions), Slaveroad is a book that will inform, challenge, and surprise Wideman fans as well as newcomers to his writing.
John Edgar Widemanโs Slaveroad is a groundbreaking work of โbruising candor and obsessive originalityโ (The Wall Street Journal). For centuries, the buying and selling of human beings was legal, and millions of Africans were kidnapped then forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean to serve as slaves. The enduring legacies of this slave road trafficโdenied, unacknowledged, misunderstood, repressedโcontinue to poison the experiences and journeys of all Americans.
In a section of โSlaveroad,โ called โSheppard,โ William Henry Sheppard, a descendant of enslaved Virginians, travels back to Africa where he works as a missionary, converting Africans to Christianity alongside his Southern white colleague. Wideman imagines drinking afternoon tea with Lucy Gant Sheppard, Williamโs wife, who was on her own slaveroad, as she experienced her husbandโs adultery with the African women he was trying to convert. In โPenn Station,โ Widemanโs brother, after being confined forty-four years in prison, travels from Pittsburgh to New York. As Wideman awaits his brother, he asks, โHow will I distinguish my brother from the dead. Dead passengers on the slaveroad.โ
โA blend of memoir, fiction, historyโ (The Millions), Slaveroad is a book that will inform, challenge, and surprise Wideman fans as well as newcomers to his writing.
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John Edgar Widemanโs books include, among others, Look for Me and Iโll Be Gone, You Made Me Love You, American Histories, Writing to Save a Life, Brothers and Keepers, Philadelphia Fire, Fatheralong, Hoop Roots, and Sent for You Yesterday. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award twice and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award. He is a MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. He divides his time between New York and France.
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