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Snatched from the docks of New Orleans, 13-year-old Jessie is thrown aboard a slave ship where he is sickened by the horrible practices of the slave business. But they are nothing compared to the one final horror that Jessie will witness. Can the cruelty be stopped before it’s too late?
- Sales Rank: #1736070 in Books
- Published on: 1990-12-02
- Released on: 1990-12-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.55" h x .38" w x 5.28" l, .60 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
Review
"Spellbinding...will horrify as well as fascinate." -- "School Library Journal", starred review
"Movingly and realistically presents one of the most gruesome chapters of history." -- "Booklist", starred review
From the Publisher
Snatched from the docks of New Orleans, thirteen-year-old Jessie is thrown aboard a slave ship where he must play his fife so that captured slaves will "dance," and keep their muscles strong and their bodies profitable.
Jessie is sickened by the horrible practices of the slave business. But they are nothing compared to the one final horror that Jessie will witness. Can the cruelty be stopped? And will it be too late when it does?
From the Inside Flap
Snatched from the docks of New Orleans, thirteen-year-old Jessie is thrown aboard a slave ship where he must play his fife so that captured slaves will "dance," and keep their muscles strong and their bodies profitable.
Jessie is sickened by the horrible practices of the slave business. But they are nothing compared to the one final horror that Jessie will witness. Can the cruelty be stopped? And will it be too late when it does?
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent, thought provoking story
By Kyle Pratt
I teach reading to both Junior and Senior high school students so I am always looking for superior adolescent literature. The Slave Dancer, by Paula Fox, winner of the Newbery Medal for most distinguished contribution to American literature for children in 1974, is a good choice.
The novel, set in 1840, revolves around Jesse Boller, a teenage boy from New Orleans. Because Jessie enjoys playing the fife, he is kidnapped and forced to work on The Moonlight, a slave ship. His job is to play the fife while the slaves are forced to dance. I have read elsewhere that dancing the slaves supposedly kept some muscle tone during the long voyage.
We see the voyage through the eyes of young Jesse, a boy who had never thought much about slavery. Men who have compromised with evil and greed surround him and, in a way, he too has been enslaved. During the voyage, he learns about the flawed men who now control his life and the lives of the 98 slaves locked in the hold.
The novel could certainly be used in middle or high school literature, English or even history classes. It is fiction but it depicts historical events well. In my high school reading class we completed the novel in just over six weeks. The book is written for adolescent readers. Sex and violence is told of but not described in lurid detail. However, the `N' word is used to describe the slaves on multiple occasions. Because slavers, not Jesse, use the term, I feel it adds to the brutal picture of the time. A vocabulary list of nautical and archaic terms might be helpful for class reading.
This is not the kind of book you enjoy, this is the kind of book you think about. I recommend it for adolescent or young adult readers.
Kyle Pratt
21 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
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The year is 1840. Thirteen year old Jessie Bollier is walking home through the streets of New Orleans when he is kidnapped. The kidnappers put him on a slaver, a boat that goes to Africa to get slaves and bring them to America to be sold. On his journey he sees the horrors of slavery and he is sickened. The book's title comes from Jessie's job: Jessies job is to play his fife so the slaves will dance and get exercise. Then they can be sold for higher prices. During the journey, to keep the slave ship from being stopped, all but one of the slaves - a young boy named Ras - are thrown into the shark-filled waters. Then a storm hits and Jessie and Ras hide below. Will the ship sink? Will Jessie and Ras survive? Will Jessie be able to go home? To find out, read this exciting book. My favorite part is when Purvis, an older sailor, befriends Jessie by telling him jokes and giving him hope. I recommend this book to people who like historic fiction and who like exciting but sad stories.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Freedom and Friendship--Lives' Pillars, by Shevechenko Chen, 12/31/05
By shevechenko
Standing on Paula Fox's beautiful words and looking through her profound thought, I see the unusual adventure of our protagonist Jessie. The novel The Slave Dancer attracted me, and I really like it very much. The evidence to prove its success is that the book won Newbery Medal, and its author Paula Fox once won the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. If you read the book, you will see the writer's abundant imagination and her idyllic words. Sometimes the style is as mild as a prose, and sometimes it is as nice as a poem.
The story happens when the slave business is still popular though the laws are against it. The protagonist Jessie is caught to a slave ship `moonlight' on his way to home, and he is asked to play pipe so that slaves can dance in order to keep their muscles strong and body perfectible. The ship starts out from New Orleans, then carries slaves from Africa and sells them. Most crews on the ship are unkind, even much cruel to those slaves. Life on the ship makes Jessie fear and hate the terrible voyage. In addition, some crews and slaves' deaths make him upset and miss his home. Making the things worse, the American ships run after them and they may caught by Americans because of the slave trade. Unfortunately, the ship faces a dangerous storm... Then what will happen? The end will give you a big surprise.
After finishing reading the novel, I also think about myself relate to the theme-freedom and friendship. Jessie and those slaves are forced to leave their home, their relatives and stay in dump crowded hold. They are taken into custody, and they have no rights, endure the discrimination, crews' inhumanity to them. Thus, the freedom is the thing that all of them lack and need. In the beginning, Jessie says, "I hated the fog, it made me a prisoner." Another thing that Jessie and other characters look for is the friendship. Each crew wants to have friends, but they are not friendly to each other. It is contradictory. In the story, Jessie has two friends. One is a crew Purvis and the other is a slave Ras. However, Purvis dies in the storm, and Ras leaves him. In the end, Jessie feels lonely and misses his friends. He looks for Ras and his friendship all the time, because nobody may live without friends. Jessie describes his action as follow, "I thought I really saw him, and I ran after a tall slender young black man walking along in front of me. But it was not he." From now on, let's treasure our freedom and friends more. We should contribute our power to fight with the hegemonies.
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