The Slave Dancer (english Edition) Format Kindle

Présentation de l'éditeur Snatched from the docks of New Orleans, 13-year-old Jessie is thrown aboard a slave ship where he is sickened by the horrible practices of the slave business. But they are nothing compared to the one final horror that Jessie will witness. Can the cruelty be stopped before it’s too late? Extrait An Excerpt from The Slave Dancer I heard one piercing scream. My teeth began to chatter. Then a very small brown face rose above the rail as though it had flown up from the sea. It continued to rise slowly until its brown bare chest was visible. Then I saw dark hands around its waist. The hands lifted, the little girl's legs flew out, and I saw the head of the young man who had been carrying her. For a second, she sat on the deck, looking all around her, her eyes huge with amazement, then she crawled and jumped toward the rail but was forced back by the forward propulsion of the man who tottered over the rail, unable, it seemed, to bring his body any further. The child hugged the young man's neck frantically and buried her face in his hair. At that moment, Nicholas Spark bent his thin length and gripped the man's back as though he were gathering up cloth, and yanked him altogether over, the chains around his ankles striking the deck with a violent clanging. The clanging never ceased as one after another the captives struggled over the rail and were dropped or dragged onto the deck. How long did it all take? I'll never know. None of us moved.