Winner of the Booker Prize Liverpool, 1752.
It is a novel that transcends its setting, illuminating larger truths that resonate to this day..
Unsworth\'s tour de force is a profound meditation on the Sacred hunger--the greed--couched within human nature, animating the slave trade.
Slaves and sailors alike will join together to found a utopian community on the coast of Florida--not knowing that the vengeful, younger Kemp is in pursuit.
When disease ravages the ship and the African prisoners mutiny, William\'s profit-seeking venture falls apart.
His last resort is a slave ship, one that will take him to the Guinea coast, where he will trade for human cargo, then embark on the infamous Middle Passage.
William Kemp has lost a fortune in cotton speculation, and must recoup his losses if his son is to marry the wealthy woman whom he loves.
Winner of the Booker Prize Liverpool, 1752
