On Mount Welcome, a great sugar estate in the hills near Montego Bay, a young Englishman arrives to visit his planter uncle and is drawn into a web of inheritance plots, a slave-dealer’s schemes, obeah sorcery and the free Maroon hunters of the mountains. Reid’s portraits of enslaved Jamaicans, of the Maroons and of a Jewish slave-dealer lean heavily on the prejudices of 1862.
Lush Caribbean melodrama from the master of Victorian adventure, best read with its period attitudes in view. Download the free EPUB.