Hyacinth
A Costly Jamaican Slave
Published on 22. August 2018
223 pages
978-1-78538-959-7 (ISBN)
Description
Hyacinth is the daughter of a Jamaican plantation owner and one of his slaves and is married to a sailor who deserted the British Navy and settled in Jamaica.The story is set in the early 19th century.Hyacinth incurs the hostility of her half-brothers who see her as a threat to their authority on her father's sugar plantation. Her life thus becomes one of great complexity with trials and triumphs amid travel and adventure.Lives and relationships unfold before the reader as lived by real people who either endured or benefitted from slavery. Historical context and descriptions of locations are real. Feisty Hyacinth and her faithful Albert await your pleasure.
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Person
John Charlton was born in Yorkshire and has been a physics teacher and airline pilot. He taught physics in secondary schools in England, Jamaica and Dominica and been an airline captain primarily on Boeing 737s. He is now retired, married to a Bulgarian who is a fellow member of MENSA and has two teenage children. He has dual British and Jamaican citizenship.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front matter
- Title page
- Publisher information
- Hyacinth: A Costly Jamaican Slave
- Chapter 1: Capture land
- Chapter 2: Hyacinth's mother
- Chapter 3: A journey begins
- Chapter 4: Montego Bay
- Chapter 5: Emma
- Chapter 6: The Beresford estate
- Chapter 7: What to do
- Chapter 8: A way to leave
- Chapter 9: The final solution
- Chapter 10: Albert responds
- Chapter 11: Lucea
- Chapter 12: The guess
- Chapter 13: Topman
- Chapter 14: Impotence
- Chapter 15: Man overboard
- Chapter 16: Too close for comfort
- Chapter 17: Portsmouth
- Chapter 18: Captain Jones
- Chapter 19: Uncle Charles
- Chapter 20: Planning
- Chapter 21: Forty miles
- Chapter 22: Marie-Galante
- Chapter 23: The Mayor
- Chapter 24: Inside the barrel
- Chapter 25: British again
- Chapter 26: The sweetness of sugar
- Chapter 27: Unexpected cold
- Chapter 28: Separation
- Chapter 29: The heat of Kingston
- Chapter 30: The Armoury Building
- Chapter 31: The long walk
- Chapter 32: The old home
- Chapter 33: The only possible course
- Chapter 34: Retraced steps
- Chapter 35: Smithson
- Chapter 36: Great House
- Chapter 37: Phoenix
- Chapter 38: Settling in
- Chapter 39: Cold pavement
- Chapter 40: One foot in the door
- Chapter 41: Down to Earth
- Chapter 42: Preacher
- Chapter 43: Insurrection
- Chapter 44: Speaker
- Chapter 45: North again
- Chapter 46: To love and serve
