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Emmanuel Appadocca, Or, Blighted Life : A Tale of the Boucaneers
author
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Philip, Maxwell.; Cudjoe, Selwyn Reginald.; Cain, William E.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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1558490752
print isbn13
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9781558490758
ebook isbn13
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9780585084015
language
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English
subject
Fathers and sons--Fiction, Buccaneers--Fiction, Slavery--Fiction, Adventure stories, Sea stories.
publication date
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1997
lcc
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PR9272.9.P48E66 1997eb
ddc
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813
subject
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Fathers and sons--Fiction, Buccaneers--Fiction, Slavery--Fiction, Adventure stories, Sea stories.
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Emmanuel Appadocca; or, Blighted Life.
A Tale of the Boucaneers
Maxwell Philip
Edited with an afterword by Selwyn R. Cudjoe Introduction and annotations by William E. Cain
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS AMHERST
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Introduction and annotations 1997 by William E. Cain Afterword 1997 by Selwyn R. Cudjoe All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
LC 96-47786 ISBN 1-55849-075-2 (cloth); 076-0 (pbk.) Designed by Jack Harrison Set in ITC Bodoni Book by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Braun-Brumfield, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Philip, Maxwell, 18291888. Emmanuel Appadocca, or, Blighted life : a tale of the boucaneers / Maxwell Philip ; edited with an afterword by Selwyn R. Cudjoe ; introduction and annotations by William E. Cain. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ), ISBN 1-55849-075-2 (cloth : alk. paper). ISBN 1-55849-076-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) I. Cudjoe, Selwyn Reginald. II. Cain, William E., 1952 . III. Title. PR9272.9.P48E66 1997 813dc2196-47786 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
Excerpts from Euripides, Hecuba, translated by William Arrowsmith from volume 3 of The Complete Greek Tragedies, general editors David Grene and Richard Lattimore, copyright 1960, are used by permission of the University of Chicago Press. The map on page viii is from Herbert S. Klein, African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We are indebted to Bruce Wilcox, Pam Wilkinson, and Catlin Murphy of the University of Massachusetts Press for their encouragement and support of this project. We owe thanks too to our Wellesley College colleagues Tim Peltason for advice about the Introduction and Mary Lefkowitz and Lorraine Roses for help with several annotations.
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CONTENTS
Preface
Selwyn R. Cudjoe
ix
Introduction: Emmanuel Appadocca in Its American Context
Wiliam E. Cain
xv
Emmanuel Appadocca; or, Blighted Life: A Tale of the Boucaneers
Maxwell Philip
1
Afterword: Emmanuel Appadocca, the First Anglo-Caribbean Novel
Selwyn R. Cudjoe
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PREFACE
Selwyn R. Cudjoe
Described by C. L. R. James as "the most brilliant native of his time and within memory,"1 Michel Maxwell Philip (182988) was born in Trinidad during the era of slavery. He was a member of the fourth generation of the Philip family, a family that had its origins in "a dynasty of Black women, heirs to estates on Carriacou, Grenada, and the entire island of Petite Martinique" and who through their radical activities and public service fought against discriminatory and racist practices in Grenada and Trinidad.
At the head of the family was Jeanette Philip (?1784), a "free negro woman," who inherited an estate of 464 acres and eighty-nine slaves when Honore Philip, a Frenchman with whom she cohabited, died sometime before 1775. The family's wealth gave the descendants "the opportunity for schooling which resulted in a class of well trained people versed in the classics and in possession of literary skills." As Lorna McDaniel notes, a good number of them acquired an "elitist education in European universities."2
Yet despite their social privilege and elitist education, many members of the Philip family were involved in the radical political activities of their society, such as the Fdon Rebellion of 1795.3 During that rebellion, Jo-
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