​​"The Slaver’s Apprentice is a haunting, thoroughly engrossing novel of the 19th-century Atlantic. Through the eyes of Malachi MacKay, Jonathan M. Bryant delivers a powerful indictment of the slave trade that is as historically meticulous as it is emotionally devastating.”

—Kevin Powers. Pen/Hemingway Award winner and Nationa Book Award Finalist.  

A marvelous job transitioning from academic to storyteller.  The pacing is superb, the plot unfolds seamlessly, the characters are well developed, it just all feels so whole."          

--Susan E. O'Donovan,  winner of the  James A. Rawley Prize for history.