![]() Jessie’s job is to provide music for the slaves to dance to on the ship’s deck-not for amusement but for exercise, as a way to keep their muscles strong and their bodies profitable. There, the Moonlight picks up ninety-eight black prisoners, and the men, women, and children, chained hand and foot, are methodically crammed into the ship’s hold. When he wakes up, Jessie finds himself aboard a slave ship, bound for Africa. One night, on his way home, a canvas is thrown over his head and he’s knocked unconscious. ![]() Thirteen-year-old Jessie Bollier earns a few pennies playing his fife on the docks of New Orleans. In this iconic, wrenching Newbery Medal winning book, a young Louisiana boy faces the horrors of slavery when he is kidnapped and forced to work on a slave ship. ![]()
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