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They called her Sila van den Kaap, slave of Jacobus Stephanus Van der Wat of Plettenberg Bay, in the Cape Colony of South Africa. They called her murderer, and demanded that she explain her terrible violence. She uttered one strange, powerful word and shut her mouth to them. A woman fit for hanging ... condemned to death on April 30, 1823, only to have her sentence commuted to a lengthy term on the notorious Robben Island.
Sila spends her days in the prison quarry, breaking stones for Cape Town's streets or cleaning the Warden's house. Her fierce, sometimes tender voice recalls the dramatic events of her life - as well as its small, precious moments and pleasures. Sila speaks of her masters and mistresses, especially Oumiesies ("old Missus"). Granted freedom in Oumiesies' will, Sila falls prey instead to Theron, Oumiesies' vicious and mercenary son, who destroys the will and with it Sila's life.
Slavery as it existed in Africa has seldom been portrayed - and never with such texture, detail, and authentic emotion. Inspired by actual 19th-century court records, Unconfessed is a literary tour de force.
Sila spends her days in the prison quarry, breaking stones for Cape Town's streets or cleaning the Warden's house. Her fierce, sometimes tender voice recalls the dramatic events of her life - as well as its small, precious moments and pleasures. Sila speaks of her masters and mistresses, especially Oumiesies ("old Missus"). Granted freedom in Oumiesies' will, Sila falls prey instead to Theron, Oumiesies' vicious and mercenary son, who destroys the will and with it Sila's life.
Slavery as it existed in Africa has seldom been portrayed - and never with such texture, detail, and authentic emotion. Inspired by actual 19th-century court records, Unconfessed is a literary tour de force.
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Yvette Christianse teaches African American and post-colonial literatures at Fordham University.
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