aye write! Glasgow’s Book Festival

Chris Dolan and Andrea Stuart
Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival at the Mitchell Library
20th April 2013 at 16:30 – 17:30

Chris Dolan’s novel Redlegs is the powerful and disturbing tale of a young Scottish actress caught up in the racism of plantation life in Barbados. He is in discussion with Andrea Stuart descended from a slave and slave owner. In Sugar in the Blood, Stuart follows her earliest known maternal ancestor who set sail from England in the 1620s to settle in Barbados where his descendents became successful, slave owning plantation owners.