![]() ![]() ![]() Even though, I did not pray so often after that, and soon I nearly did not pray anymore. I find it veryĬomforting to know exactly what to do. ![]() You only have to say: Save me, Lord, I perish. ![]() But sins are not sins if they are hunted immediately. there are so many things that are sins, why? Another sin to think that. Īfter a childhood without education, where she lived as abandoned, poor and wild as the estate in perdition she loved yet, in the convent, Antoinette discovers another world: Marriage is not always synonymous with happiness, far from it. In this fiction, Antoinette Cosway, a creole girl, tells her childhood at Coulibri Estate in Jamaica, where she was born in 1839, seven years after slave abolition.īetween the indifference of her mother and the slave revolts, her fate turns upside down: she is sent to a convent (a school) that she will leave at the age of seventeen, to get married but … and indeed, what a particular island we discover through this novel: an island inhabited by Blacks, Whites, slaves from Africa, Spanish first settlers, English who seized the island afterwards,įrench people, Chinese and Indian laborers, as many as different colors and cultures, this could be a paradise but Men being what they are, it’s most often a hell. ![]()
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