![]() ![]() She won the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction for Small Island, about Jamaican immigrants in England. While it's fiction, its author Andrea Levy researched the history of Jamaican slavery to develop a picture of the sort of world a young slave like July might inhabit.Īndrea Levy herself is British with Jamaican background. In archives and libraries there are many journals that document the life of plantation owners but little from the perspective of the slaves.īut in this novel, The Long Song, the story is told by July, a slave who's the maid for Caroline Mortimer, the sister of a plantation owner. ![]() It's not just about their suffering but about their defiance and resistance to the system that kept them in bondage for 300 years. It opens the shuttered windows of the plantation houses and peers into the kitchens and backrooms where slaves worked, and gives them a story. The Long Song is a story about Jamaican slavery. ![]()
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