โ Brian J. Clarke
๐ Fiction
๐
2010
๐ UND
โ 33 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Long Song
โ Scribed by Andrea Levy
- Publisher
- PENGUIN GROUP (CANADA);Hamish Hamilton Canada
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 175 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
You do not know me yet but I am the narrator of this work. My son Thomas, who is printing this book, tells me it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within its pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed.
July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation called Amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831, and she was also present when slavery was declared no more. My son says I must convey how the story also tells of July's mama, Kitty; of the negroes that worked the plantation land; of Caroline Mortimer, the white woman who owned the plantation; and many more persons besides--far too many for me to list here. But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse...
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