{"product_id":"the-slave-ship","title":"The Slave Ship","description":"330 pp. The Slave Ship (1924) is the eighteenth novel by the Virginia-born writer Mary Johnston. Set in Scotland, Virginia, Africa, and Jamaica, the novel follows twelve years in the life of David Scott, who is captured at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 and then transported to Virginia as a convict laborer. After a daring escape, Scott finds refuge on the slave ship Janet. There he works his way up from clerk to captain, making numerous voyages to the Slave Coast of West Africa and participating in the infamous Middle Passage, during which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas. Johnston’s novel reflects her own extensive research on the Atlantic slave trade and, at times, an impressive attention to detail. Nevertheless, Johnston consistently understates the horrors of the Middle Passage and especially of the captains and crews who violently oversaw their human cargoes. Reviews of The Slave Ship upon its release were generally positive. The New York Times, for instance, praised its evocative descriptions while worrying that Johnston’s theme—that master and servant are both slaves—distracted from the brutal reality of African enslavement.","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41761024376902,"sku":"2344285","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/files\/2344285.jpg?v=1717617402","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/the-slave-ship","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}