MIddle Passage

Middle Passage by Charles Johnson is a very interesting book. I also like how Charles is black because we are so used to reading books around this time from a white person's perspective, and now we get to see how the blacks felt and were emotionally effected by all this happening to them, from being sold and moved around to being maybe even a free man then being written up as a run away slave. There are just so many suspenseful moments when i just have to keep reading ahead even if we are supposed to stop. I also love many of the characters in this book. This book is just wonderful all around and has many interesting scenes that i get all into.
First of all, my favorite character is Rutherford Calhoun. The interesting thing about him is that he is a freed slave and he still lives down South in New Orleans. I also liked how he wanted to travel the world instead of get married, he wanted to test things out and not be tied down. It was also weird in the begging of the book when we hear about that gang with the leader called Papa. I never knew that there were little gangs like that. Another character i loved was Captain Falcon. He as a man is strange because he is usually always drunk and ordering Rutherford around. But then in a way he connects with Rutherford and helps him out by giving him that magnetic ring and the gun to go with it.
My favorite part about this book so far has been when Rutherford found out that there is a God on board the Republic. When he found out i feel like he was scared, like he had no clue on what to do with this god and how to chain him down. This God was very interesting to read about because he has so many powers. He comes from the tribe Allmuseri, which is known for hard workers. My favorite line in this section was "You may say empirical knowledge is on man's side, not God's. It's our glory and grief both, function of the duality mind..." This line is so inter sting how it is almost even saying that man is more intelligent, more powerful than God its self. This god reflects the values of the Allumseri because it almost even represents their culture, which is again hard working men, but then this god traps people and tricks them into going to heaven. The god on board may cause some advantages or disadvantages. It could kill many people on tricking them or it could save slaves by relieving them. It could go either way.