Feeding the Ghosts

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Feeding the Ghosts

A literary venture into the economic shadow that slavery cast, Feeding the Ghosts, based on a true story, lays bare the raw business of the slave trade. The Zong, a slave ship packed with captive African â€œstock,â€ is headed to the New World. When illness threatens to disable all on board and cut potential profits, the shipâ€™s captain orders his crew to throw the sick into the ocean. After being hurled overboard, Mintah, a young female slave taken from a Danish mission, is able to climb back onto the ship. From her hiding place, she rouses the remaining slaves to rebel and stirs unease among the crew with a voice and conscience they seem unable to silence. Mintahâ€™s courage and othersâ€™ reactions to it unfold in a suspenseful story of the struggle to live even when threatened by oblivion.

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