Cambridge (Picador Books)

by Caryl Phillips (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $3.28

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.28

  Explores the feelings of uncertainty that defined the period of time between the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of the slaves. It is the story of Emily Cartwright, an Englishwoman sent to visit her father's plantation in the West Indies, and of Cambridge, a plantation slave.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1991

  $3.28

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $11.59

  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.