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Emmanuel Appadocca: Or, Blighted Life; A Tale of the Boucaneers

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Emmanuel Appadocca; Or, Blighted Life: A Tale of the Boucaneers - Philip, Maxwell, and Cudjoe, Selwyn Reginald, and Cain, William E (Introduction by)
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This 1854 novel traces a mulatto son's quest for vengeance against his white father, a sugar planter who abandoned him and his mother. Intent on redeeming his mother's honor and outraged by the cruelty and greed that slavery has engendered Appodacca sails the seas with a band of ruthless pirates on a ship named the Black Schooner. The novel, written by the important activist and intellectual Michel Maxwell Philip (1829-1888) deals with themes, symbols, and literary techniques that are reminiscent of other major authors such ...

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Emmanuel Appadocca; Or, Blighted Life: A Tale of the Boucaneers 1997, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst

ISBN-13: 9781558490765

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