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    Review of Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger

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    In six pages this paper presents a review of this fictitious 18th century sea tale and the search for utopia that transcends color lines. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.

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    which made slavery an accepted part of white society. He takes tradition one step further, however, by setting up a scenario in which white and black alike search for  a utopian society, a means by which all can once and for all be equal. This paper analyzes the factors which made that goal an impossibility. Bibliography lists  3 sources. PPscrdHg.rtf Sacred Hunger: A Review of the Book by Barry Unsworth by - 24 Oct 2001 VISIT  /aftersale.htm paper properly! Barry Unsworths "Sacred Hunger"  centers around the events which impact the owners, crew, and cargo of an Eighteenth Century ship, "The Liverpool Merchant". The ship is sailing for the American colonies with a  valuable live cargo, black slaves. The Library Journal describes the events which will unfold as a "graphic depiction of the 18th-century slave trade and a society driven by the  desire to maximize profit regardless of the human cost" (The Reading Group). Unsworth uses the traditional sea story to provide an interesting view of the historical factors which made  slavery an accepted part of white society. He takes tradition one step further, however, by setting up a scenario in which white and black alike search for a utopian  society, a means by which all can once and for all be equal. The crew and their cargo mutiny and make their way to the Florida shoreline where  they strive for the creation of a workable society in which black and white are equal. In "Sacred Hunger" Unsworth explores economics and 

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