![]() ![]() ![]() He had already begun to use the polyphonic technique which he initiated with Higher Ground (1989) and which would allow him to explore different voices as a way of making audible the intimate suffering of those caught in the complex web of historical forces. When he published the novel in 1993 he had already written four other novels focusing on the effects over time of the trade, particularly on people living in the Caribbean ( A State of Independence, 1986) or those who emigrated to Great Britain ( The Final Passage, 1985). I sold my children.” With these three short sentences, the opening lines of his fifth novel, Crossing the River, Caryl Phillips undertook an imaginative and intellectual journey that would involve an active engagement with a subject which had become a crucial and difficult one for writers on both sides of the Atlantic – the legacy of the slave trade. ![]()
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