Description - Cambridge by Caryl Phillips
Dramatic and challenging novel about freedom and prejudice by the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Cambridge 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 Cartwright, 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.
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