The slave dancer

By Paula Fox

Subjects: Commerce, Lectures et morceaux choisis (Enseignement secondaire), Criticism and interpretation, Esclaves, Slavery, Romans, nouvelles, Récits d'esclaves, Slave narratives, Fiction, Anglais (Langue), Slave trade, Readers (Secondary)

Description: For use in teaching literature to high school students. Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slave ship and that his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.