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Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl

"This is a story of Cot Daley, a young girl kidnapped from her home in Galway, Ireland, and shipped out to Barbados, where more than fifty thousand Irish sold as indentured servants to the plantation owners of the Caribbean worked the land alongside African slaves. Most of them would never see their families again."--Jacket.

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  • ""This is a story of Cot Daley, a young girl kidnapped from her home in Galway, Ireland, and shipped out to Barbados, where more than fifty thousand Irish sold as indentured servants to the plantation owners of the Caribbean worked the land alongside African slaves. Most of them would never see their families again."--Jacket."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "An original story based on the life of a girl kidnapped from Ireland and sold into indentured servitude, relating her account of a failed slave rebellion to a disillusioned British doctor."@en
  • "The captivating story of Cot Daley, kidnapped in Galway and shipped to Barbados and sold as a slave. The survivor of a failed rebellion, in which black and Irish slaves have conspired to overthrow their masters, Cot Daley is called in for questioning. She agrees to give her account only as part of her life story, wanting to set the record straight for posterity. The tale of her amazing life unfolds: the journey to Barbados, the harrowing years of fieldwork on the sugarcane plantations, and her marriage to an African slave and rebel leader. Kate McCafferty brilliantly re-creates this little-known part of seventeenth-century history, when more than fifty-thousand Irish were sold to the plantation owners of the Caribbean."@en
  • "A novel set in seventeenth-century Barbados follows Cot Daley, kidnapped from Ireland and sold into indentured servitude, as she relates her account of a failed slave rebellion to Peter Coote, a disillusioned British doctor."@en
  • "A novel set in seventeenth-century Barbados follows Cot Daley, kidnapped from Ireland and sold into indentured servitude, as she relates her account of a failed slave rebellion to Peter Coote, a disillusioned British doctor."

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  • "General fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
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  • "Electronic books"

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  • "Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl"@en
  • "Testimony of an irish slave girl"@en
  • "Testimony of an Irish slave girl"@en
  • "Testimony of an Irish slave girl"

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