What is most real about this book are the emotions Jessie experiences, including many that he wouldnt be proud of, and some that he could never explain even to himself.
It is the story of Jessie, abducted from the streets of New Orleans and pressed into service on an illegal slaving ship in the year 1840 of how he survives the wanton cruelty, harsh discipline, danger, want, and evil company of a trip to Africa and back of how his talent for playing the fife is perverted into making the slaves dance for their daily exercise, while he can scarcely stand to witness the inhuman conditions they are forced to live in of how a poetic twist of fate makes him and a young African boy sharers in a strange destiny. This 1974 Newbery Medal winner, by the author of the Newbery Honor Book One Eyed Cat, is a bitter, painful story told in hauntingly beautiful words.
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