Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl - Hardcover

McCafferty, Kate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670030651 ISBN 13: 9780670030651

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2002

Synopsis

A debut novel set in seventeenth-century Barbados follows Cot Daley, kidnapped from Ireland and sold into indentured servitude, as she relates her account of a failed slave rebellion to Peter Coote, a disillusioned British doctor, detailing the extraoridinary story of her life, from her horrific journey to Barbados to her marriage to an African slave and rebel leader. 25,000 first printing.

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Review:

"McCafferty's haunting novel chronicles an overlooked chapter in the annals of human slavery... Abducted at the age of 10, Cot Daley is subjected to one bewildering indignity after another as she is sold and resold as both a house servant and a field hand. Eventually incarcerated for her participation in a mixed-race slave revolt, she is questioned by Peter Coote, an English physician commissioned by the governor to evaluate the utility of the various races of slaves residing in Barbados... Cot recounts her life as a slave, her marriage to a proud African rebel, and her role in a noble, but doomed, uprising against the brutal plantation owners. A meticulously researched piece of historical fiction that will keep readers both horrified and mesmerized." Booklist "Thousands of Irish men, women and children were sold into slavery to work in the sugarcane fields of Barbados in the 17th century... McCafferty has researched her theme well and, through Cot, shows us the terrible indignities and suffering endured." Irish Independent "McCafferty's imagined oral record is convincing - a harrowing tale about events too long ignored by textbooks." Los Angeles Times "McCafferty does a remarkably vivid and thorough job of portraying what life was like for the indentured Irish." Boston Globe"

About the Author:

Kate McCafferty was born in the United States and received her Ph.D. in English. Since then she has taught English in colleges all over the world. She has published essays, poems, and short fiction pieces in a number of publications. Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl is her first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0670030651
• ISBN 13: 9780670030651
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 210