THE WINTER'S COAST

Realism rules in THE WINTER'S COAST--a tale of murder and justice undone. While most accounts of early America, and the American slave trade, are standard and melodramatic, the captain's log that begins The Winter's Coast is stark and bluntly economic, as in fact the trade in human flesh was. The second section, called The House of Sellers, is exactly that, an account of the Americanization of a slave and the place he found reserved for him in society. But not until we reach the final secti...