![]() ![]() Perhaps, my son suggests, I might write that it is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it. But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse. My son says I must convey how the story also tells of July's mama, Kitty of the negroes that worked the plantation land of Caroline Mortimer, the white woman who owned the plantation and many more persons besides-far too many for me to list here. She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831, and she was also present when slavery was declared no more. July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation called Amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed. My son Thomas, who is printing this book, tells me it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within its pages. ![]() ![]() You do not know me yet but I am the narrator of this work. ![]()
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