Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl - by Kate McCafferty (Paperback)

About the Book

Kidnapped as a young girl in Galway, Ireland, and shipped to Barbados, Cot Daley's life is re-created in this stunning novel that portrays the history of the more than 50,000 Irish who were sold as indentured servants to Caribbean plantation owners.

Book Synopsis

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 the 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, 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.

About the Author

Kate McCafferty was born in the United States and received her Ph.D. in English. Since then she has taught English in colleges all over the world. She has published essays, poems, and short fiction pieces in a number of publications. Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl is her first novel.