A Scribner Classics edition of Charles Johnson\'s masterpiece, winner of the National Book Award--"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick ...heroic in proportion...fiction that hooks the mind" ( The New York Times Book Review ).
He jumps aboard the first boat leaving New Orlean.
Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, is desperate to escape unscrupulous bill collectors and an impending marriage to a priggish schoolteacher.
It is 1830.
A Scribner Classics edition of Charles Johnson\'s masterpiece, winner of the National Book Award--"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick ...heroic in proportion...fiction that hooks the mind" ( The New York Times Book Review )