Cambridge

Description:

Dramatic and challenging novel about freedom and prejudice by one of the most important authors of his generationCambridge is a powerful and haunting novel set in that uneasy time between the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of the slaves. It is the story of Emily Cambridge, a young woman sent from England to visit her father's West Indian plantation, and Cambridge, a plantation slave, educated and Christianised by his first master in England and now struggling to maintain his dignity.

subjects: Slavery,  Fiction,  Historical Fiction,  Slaveholders,  Slavery -- Fiction,  Slaveholders -- Fiction,  West Indies -- Fiction,  Fiction, historical,  West indies, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general

Places: West Indies