01634cam a2200313 i 4500 605905098 TxAuBib 20220923120000.0 190403s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780525563242 0525563245 TxAuBib rda Edugyan, Esi,. Washington Black / Esi Edugyan. New York : Vintage Books, [2019] 383 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Eleven-year-old George Washington Black -- or Wash -- a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is intially terrified when he is chosen to be the manservant of his master's brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is intiated into a world where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, they must abandon everything and flee. Spanning the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, London to Morocco, Washington Black is a story of self-invention and betrayal, of love and redemption, and of a world destroyed and made whole again."--Publisher's description. 20220923. Slavery Fiction. Fugitive slaves Fiction. Naturalists Fiction. Canadian fiction. Flying-machines Fiction. Barbados Fiction. TXSAI