Fourteen-year-old Jessie Bollier, an excellent flute player, is kidnapped from New Orleans during the summer of 1840 and forced into service on a slave-trader ship bound for Africa. On board, Jessie is forced to be the Slave Dancer, who plays the flute while the slaves dance in their shackles for exercise. Winner of the 1974 Newbery Medal.
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