Title: Cambridge
Subtitle: a novel
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