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INSCRIPTION FROM GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE on half-title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; An incandescent literary work about slavery in Canada. Beatrice Chancy is set in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia in the year 1801. Beatrice is the daughter of a black slave woman who was raped by her white master. Raised in the master's household, Beatrice is beautiful, clever, kind and cultured - her father's prize possession. As her story opens, Beatrice is sixteen and freshly returned from a covent school where she was sent "to copy white ladies' ways." Her declaration of love for a slave sparks tension that culminates in a monstrous act: the rape of Beatrice by her own father, Francis Chancy. From here, violence begets violence until Chaney is killed and Beatrice hanged for his death. Near Fine Soft cover Raincoast Books 1999 Vancouver, BC
