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Joseph Knight

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Exiled to Jamaica after the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Sir John Wedderburn made a fortune, alongside his three brothers, as a faux surgeon and sugar planter. Two decades later, when he returned to Scotland to marry and re-establish the family name, he brought with him Joseph Knight, a black slave, a token of his years in the West Indies. At the end of his long life, long after the Edinburgh court case which pitted master against slave, property against liberty, Wedderburn tries to track down Joseph Knight, who has been missing for twenty-four years but whom he has never forgotten.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR James
Robertson

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
24/01/2025
Country
Scotland
Original Language
English
Publisher
Fourth Estate

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