A review by checkedoutbooks
The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

3.0

Read for Newberry Challenge - 1974 winner. I'm having a tough time rating this. On the one hand I found it to be an absolute page-turner which is saying something for Newberry winners, and it did not shy away from the horrors of a slave ship showing the realities faced upon them. On the other I'm not sure a white boys point of view is the story that needs telling. The characters in this are extremely 1-dimensional with most being evil instead of gray. You will read the entire book with a knot in your stomach of all that is described.