The WINTER'S COAST — David Chacko

The Winter's Coast is a documentary-like look at the life of a slave from his first appearance (sale) in Africa, to his life as a point of contention that extends all the way across the Atlantic Ocean, to his death when he is sent on a voyage to Surinam. We will never know Cuff Fry, the subject of the book, intimately. We will never known how one man who was legally not a man could become a subject of notoriety while all his fellows passed in obscurity. The only thing we will understand is how he came to this country and how he passed the short years until his death. We will know those things so well that we will never ask how he came to be famous. And finally immortal.