Description: A former American slave from Virginia, Tom Molineaux, is a successful boxer in England at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. A series of narrators--Molineaux's trainer, contemporary boxing journalists, his childhood girlfriend--tell the pro...
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Synopsis A former American slave from Virginia, Tom Molineaux, is a successful boxer in England at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. A series of narrators--Molineaux's trainer, contemporary boxing journalists, his childhood girlfriend--tell the protagonist's story. An exacting account of 19th-century English manners and slang sets the stage for the courageous, yet vulnerable black man in a highly class-conscious society.