Flight to Canada (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Ishmael Reed
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: During and after the American Civil War
- Setting: The United States and Canada
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans
- Locales: United States
Characters Discussed
Raven Quickskill, a slave who escaped from Swine’rd, the Virginia plantation of Arthur Swille. Quickskill initiates the action of the novel, even though he is not physically present during most of the book, because the event that sets the action in motion is his escape to Canada. Quickskill’s poem “Flight to Canada” makes him famous and causes him to be a target of the Nebraska tracers, a group of slave catchers employed by Swille and other slave owners. When Quickskill discovers that Uncle Robin has inherited the Swine’rd Plantation after the...
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