Elizabeth Haywood

Lucy

ISBN: 978-1-5289-8354-9
EAN: 9781528983549
Produktnummer: 37846780
Verlag: Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 408 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Ultimate Survivor

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A dramatic and intriguing true Georgian tale of love, betrayal and survival. Lucy, a strong-willed girl from a wealthy family, was brought up on the English-Welsh border and married a Caribbean plantation owner, Sam Lord, for love, meanwhile he married her for her fortune, at a time when a woman was a chattel and everything she had, including her children, became her husband's. Abused and imprisoned in Barbados, she escaped with the help of enslaved people. A vibrant intimate description of early 19th-century life - giving birth at sea, braving disease and cruelty, and witnessing the abject misery of slavery - this is a story of courage in ad… Mehr