Charles Johnson discusses his book, “Middle Passage.” He says the “middle passage” is the journey from the African west coast to the United States. Johnson describes the protagonist, Rutherford Calhoun, a former slave, his brother, Jackson, and other characters such as a Creole and a Boston schoolteacher. He states that the book took six years to write and that he did a lot of research beginning with the slave trade in 1971. Johnson says that history was used as a metaphor for the present and discusses the moral question of the book. He goes on to talk about writing and his career as a professor.
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