Cambridge
The life of Cambridge, an educated slave in the British West Indies, is intertwined with that of Emily Cartwright, an English heiress visiting her father's sugar estate, in a portrayal of the moral hypocrisy of the plantation system
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One of England's most widely acclaimed young novelists adopts two eerily convincing narrative voices and juxtaposes their stories to devastating effect in this mesmerizing portrait of slavery. Cambridge is a devoutly Christian slave in the West Indies whose sense of justice is both profound and self-destructive, while Emily is a morally-blind, genteel Englishwoman.
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