Title Adolphus, a tale / Anonymous. & the slave son / by Mrs. William Noy Wilkins ; edited by Lise Winer ; with annotations and an introduction by Bridget Brereton [and others]

Published Mona, Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2001, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (lxxxi, 364 pages) : illustrations Series Caribbean heritage series ; v. 2 Caribbean heritage series ; v. 2. Summary The Caribbean Heritage Series is designed to publish historic re-publications of "Trinidad Literary Roots" and comprises four Trinidadian novels published between 1838 and 1907. This second volume in the series presents two novels, Adolphus, a Tale and The Slave Son. Adolphus was first published in 1853 and was probably written by a Trinidadian mulatto, thus making it the first Trinidadian, and possibly the first West Indian, novel written by a mulatto and the first novel written by someone born and reared in Trinidad. A dramatic nineteenth-century tale, originally published in the newspapers of the day, Adolphus traces the adventures of a mulatto son of a black slave women raped by a white man. Raised by a kind Spanish-Trinidadian padre, Adolphus grows into a handsome, well-educated, noble character. Later falling in love with Antonia Romelia, he manages to rescue her from a villainous kidnapper and they flee to Venezuela where they are free to marry. The Slave Son was originally published in 1854 by Chapman and Hall, and according to the author's foreword, it was inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and was written to support the abolitionist movement in the United States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-364) Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Racially mixed people -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Fiction Slavery -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Fiction Trinidadian and Tobagonian fiction. FICTION -- General. Racially mixed people Slavery Trinidadian and Tobagonian fiction Trinidad and Tobago Genre/Form Fiction Fiction. Romans. Form Electronic book Author Winer, Lise. Brereton, Bridget, 1946- Wilkins, William Noy, Mrs., 1816- Slave son ISBN 9781435611191 1435611195 9766401330 9789766401337

Other Titles Adolphus, a tale ; and, The slave son

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