01974cam a2200349 i 4500 1262024083 TxAuBib 180109s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017058436 9780525521426 hardcover; alkaline paper 0525521429 hardcover; alkaline paper (OCoLC)1019837790 TxAuBib rda Edugyan, Esi, author. Washington Black / Esi Edugyan. First United States edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. ©2018. 333 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or ""Titch,"" is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where two people, separated by an impossible divide, might begin to see each other as human; and where a boy born in chains can embrace a life of dignity and meaning. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, Titch abandons everything to save him. What follows is their flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic, where Wash, left on his own, must invent another new life. Slavery Fiction. FICTION / African American / Historical. FICTION / Action & Adventure. FICTION / Literary. Barbados Fiction. Adventure fiction. Historical fiction. Action and adventure fiction.