Slaveroad

“Master of language” ( The New York Times ) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational position to explore what he calls the “slaveroad,” offering “a fresh perspective of slavery’s impact and a confirmation of Wideman’s exalted status in American letters” ( New York magazine). John Edgar Wideman’s Slaveroad is a groundbreaking work of “bruising candor and obsessive originality” ( The Wall Street Journal ). For centuries, the buying and selling of human beings was legal, and millions of Afri