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The
2005 Award
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Joseph
Knight by
James Robertson |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Exiled
to Jamaica after the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Sir John Wedderburn made
a fortune, alongside his three brothers, as a faux surgeon and sugar planter.
Two decades later, when he returned to Scotland to marry and re-establish
the family name, he brought with him Joseph Knight, a black slave, a token
of his years in the West Indies. At the end of his long life, long after
the Edinburgh court case which pitted master against slave, property against
liberty, Wedderburn tries to track down Joseph Knight, who has been missing
for twenty-four years but whom he has never forgotten.
Joseph
Knight is the gripping story of a search for a life that stretches
over sixty years and moves from battlefields to the plantations of Jamaica,
from Enlightenment Edinburgh to the back streets of Dundee. It is a moving
narrative of history, identity and ideas that dramatically retells a fascinating
but forgotten episode of Scottish history. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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James Robertson is the author of the novel The Fanatic as well as two collections of short stories, Close and The Ragged Man's Complaint, several collections of poetry, and a book of Scottish ghost stories. He lives in Fife, Scotland. |
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