Washington Black
Eleven-year-old George Washington Black—or Wash—a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is chosen as the manservant of his master’s brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is initiated into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky, where even a boy born in chains may embrace a life of dignity and meaning, and where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human.
Esi Edugyan is a novelist of Ghanaian descent raised in Calgary, Alberta.
Other publications from this author include:
- Half-Blood Blues (2011)
- The Second Life of Samuel Tyne (2004)