Kidnapped from Galway, Ireland, as a young girl, shipped to Barbados, and forced to work the land alongside African slaves, Cot Daley's life has been shaped by injustice. In this stunning debut novel, Kate McCafferty re-creates, through Cot's story, the history of more than fifty thousand Irish who were sold as indentured servants to Caribbean plantation owners during the seventeenth century. As Cot tells her story - the brutal journey to Barbados, her transformation from beloved Irish child to "another's thing," the harrowing years of fieldwork on the sugarcane plantations, her marriage to an African slave and rebel leader, and the fate of her children - her testimony reveals an exceptional woman's astonishing life as well as a profound portrait of the relations between slaves and their owners.
Paperback / 210 pages / Irish historical fiction
Paperback / 210 pages / Irish historical fiction