The Long Song is set in the turbulent years before the abolition of slavery in Jamaica. She’s set to work sewing and waiting hand and foot upon this fat and temperamental woman. But she’s still a slave and not even allowed to keep her own name. It’s an improvement on working in the fields. So at the age of eight, July is separated from her mother and moved to the great house. On a whim she decides this cute child will become her maid. She is destined for a hard, and likely short life, toiling in the fields with her mother.īut the plantation owner’s sister, recently arrived from England to live at Amity, spots the child. This is the story of Miss July, a child conceived as a result of the rape of Kitty, a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation in the early 19th century. They pull at the heartstrings with historically accurate scenes of brutality and deprivation and characters forced to experience injustice and degradation.įew authors dare to introduce any element of comedy into their work.įew that is except for Andrea Levy in The Long Song. Novelists who write about slavery seldom shy away from depicting the immense cruelty and inhumanity of this system.
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