Beatrice Chancy
By: George Elliott Clarke.
Publisher: Polestar
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Victoria, B.C; Custer, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Racially mixed children -- Drama.; Fathers and daughters -- Drama.; Nova Scotia -- Drama.
Genres: Drama.
Description: "Beatrice Chancy is set in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia in the year 1801. Beatrice is the daughter of a black slave woman who was raped by her white master. Raised in the master's household, Beatrice is beautiful, clever, kind and cultured - her father's prize possession.

As her story opens, Beatrice is sixteen and freshly returned from a convent school where she was sent "to copy white ladies' ways." Her declaration of love for a slave sparks tension that culminates in a monstrous act: the rape of Beatrice by her own father, Francis Chancy. From here, violence begets violence until Chancy is killed and Beatrice is hanged for his death."--BOOK JACKET.