Every Man Is A Slave
A Historical Fiction (1807-1862)
Autor: Sender ZeyvISBN(s): 096770443X
Artikelnummer: 999800001951
Sprache: EN
Verlag: TMS Publishing
Gebundene Ausgabe
496 Seiten
Every Man A Slave will change the way you think about Blacks and Jews. This colorful novel, set in the first half of the 19th century, combines fast-paced action with engrossing philosophical and theological discussion from a unique perspective. Its sharply drawn protagonists observe and reflect on broad historical trends even as they experience their personal impact on a basic life-or-death level during dramatic episodes in Africa, the recently independent United States, and Europe. In their travels and travails, they encounter historical figures as diverse as naval heroes Horatio Nelson and Stephen Decatur, Anglo-Jewish boxing champion Daniel Mendoza, journalist-statesman Mordecai Manuel Noah, British financier Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the famous rabbinical figures Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulai, Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz of Frankfurt and Rabbi Moses Sofer of Pressburg, Star Spangled Banner composer Francis Scott Key, slave revolt leader Nat Turner, and President Abraham Lincoln. But above all, the book tells the gripping story of Tubu, a young African who is sold into slavery in America, and Solomon Chaim, the scholarly and strictly observant Orthodox Jewish settler in South Carolina who becomes Tubu's owner and mentor.
