The Inner Passage

Name: The Inner Passage
Brand: RANDOM HOUSE US
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An Untold Story of Black Resistance Along a Southern Waterway

By: Imani Perry, Virginia Mcgee Richa

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Hardcover | 7 April 2026

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200 Pages

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0.1 x 0.1 x 0.1

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A deeply moving photographic and narrative history of a southern waterway that the enslaved were forced to build for mercantile shipping-but which they used to escape slavery.

A deeply moving photographic and narrative history of a southern waterway that the enslaved were forced to build for mercantile shipping-but which they used to escape slavery.

With gorgeously rich tritone photographs and a hard-bound cover with tip-in, perfect for fine art or history lovers.

Some of the earliest canals in colonial America, referred to as the Inner Passage, were constructed by enslaved people living in the Lowcountry of South Carolina in the early 1700s. In a paradox of history, for over a hundred years enslaved Black people used these canals, constructed for white plantation owners, to travel southward to freedom in Spanish Florida.

In this book, Virginia McGee Richards documents the lost narrative of the Inner Passage through 60 extraordinary photographs of landscapes altered by slavery and portraits of Lowcountry descendants, along with an essay describing her discovery of this untold history. In an accompanying essay, Imani Perry writes about her own journey on the Inner Passage, putting Black resistance to enslavement and Southern history into an immediate context. James Estrin brings decades of insight about photography and the power of visual storytelling to his affecting foreword. Together, these words and images offer a powerful living map of history.

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