# The Inner Passage

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- Book: [The Inner Passage](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-mcgee-richards/the-inner-passage) ([The Inner Passage.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-mcgee-richards/the-inner-passage.md))
- Authors: [Virginia Mcgee Richards](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-mcgee-richards), [James Estrin](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-estrin), [Imani Perry](https://www.bookquiver.com/imani-perry)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6205-171-2
- Pages: 200
- Published: 2026-04-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

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...