Sugar Hall
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Sugar Hall has been a long time in the making: Kamau Brathwaite, thank you for a fantastic education all those years ago in my beloved New York City. Junot Díaz, huge thanks for your brilliant stories in the same city.
Laurence and Joan – my tireless readers – you have great patience: also Joanie Philips and Eric Portman bless you for those early readings.
Many books have been helpful in researching Sugar Hall, in particular: Barbara Bush, Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1832 (Indiana University Press), Kamau Brathwaite, Motherpoem (OUP), Slavery and the British Country House (eds Madge Dresser and Andrew Hann, English Heritage). I would also like to thank the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum in Bristol (now defunct), the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, and London’s Imperial War Museum (where I discovered Al Jennings singing on the BBC).
Stories of the Boy were told in my school playground when I was a knock-kneed girl. He haunted a local house – Littledean Hall – and he does to this day.
Extract from ‘Limbo’, by Kamau Brathwaite, from The Arrivants: a New World Trilogy with kind permission of the author.
Extract fromThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (Faber and Faber) with kind permission of the author.
Extract from In Youth is Pleasure (Enitharmon Press) with kind permission of the estate of Denton Welch.
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