In 1830, seeking to escape an unwanted marriage, Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave, becomes a stowaway aboard The Republic, unaware that the ship is a slave clipper bound for West Africa.
- ISBN10 0330324454
- ISBN13 9780330324458
- Publish Date 30 June 1992 (first published 1 July 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 April 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Picador
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 224
- Language English