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The Middle Passage

written and illustrated by Tom Feelings

Ages: 12+

Published: 2018

Publisher: Dial BFYR/Penguin YR/PRH

ISBN: 978-0-525-55244-4

Keywords: Picture Books for Older Readers, Wordless books, Slave trade, Slavery

Feelings's 20-year-old wordless masterpiece, depicting in black-and-white drawings the horrors of the slave trade, is updated and given context with new introductions. New edition of 1995 book.