Abstract
Recommends Robertson's novel, based on the true story of the Jamaican slave who in 1778 successfully asserted his freedom in the Scottish Court of Session, and the intertwined story of John Wedderburn, the Scottish plantation owner whose slave he had been, as "an eminently enjoyable historical novel which tackles a difficult subject matter [Scotland’s complicity in slavery and the slave trade] with astonishing humanity."
Recommended Citation
Schwittlinsky, Ilka
(2017)
"James Robertson, Joseph Knight (2003),"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 43:
Iss.
2, 205–206.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol43/iss2/15