Sugar in the Blood

by Andrea Stuart

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  A Note About the Author

  Andrea Stuart was born and raised in the Caribbean. She studied English at the University of East Anglia and French at the Sorbonne. Her book The
Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon’s Josephine was published in the United States in 2004, has been translated into three languages, and won the Enid McLeod Literary Prize. Stuart’s work has been published in numerous anthologies, newspapers, and magazines, and she regularly reviews books for The Independent. She has also worked as a TV producer.

  For more information, please visit www.aaknopf.com

  WEST INDIA VESSELS OF THE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.*

  Seventeenth-century ships of the kind that George Ashby might have travelled on across the Atlantic and later on business trips around the islands (illustration credit i1.1)

  A Prospect of Bridge Town in Barbados, 1695 (illustration credit i1.2)

  Richard Ligon’s map of Barbados, 1657 (illustration credit i1.3)

  Barbadoes Mulatto Girl, Agostino Brunias, 1765 (illustration credit i1.4)

  Sugar cane (illustration credit i1.5)

  Sir Henry Morgan, the “Emperor of Buccaneers,” in Portobello (illustration credit i1.6)

  The art of making sugar, 1749 (illustration credit i1.7)

  The great house Drax Hall, a product of the region’s first great sugar fortune (illustration credit i1.8)

  Portrait assumed to be of Robert Cooper Ashby (illustration credit i1.9)

  An abolitionist pamphlet, 1776 (illustration credit i1.10)

  Robert Cooper Ashby’s last will and testament, 1839 (illustration credit i1.11)

  Sukey Ann’s document of manumission, 1832 (illustration credit i1.12)

  Edith “Muds” Ashby, née Edith Barnes, my great-grandmother (illustration credit i1.13)

  My great grand uncle “Skipper” Ashby, his wife Henrietta, and their son Wilfrid (illustration credit i1.14)

  Edward Everton Barnes Ashby, aka Vere, my maternal grandfather (illustration credit i1.15)

  Muriel Haynes Skinner, my maternal grandmother (illustration credit i1.16)