New Day (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Victor Stafford Reid
- First Published: 1949
- Type of Work: Historical chronicle
- Time of Work: 1865-1944
- Setting: Jamaica
- Principal Characters: David (Davie) Campbell, Pa John Campbell, Johnny Campbell, Lucille Dubois, John Creary Campbell, Garth Campbell
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Suffering, Politics, Race, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Revolutions, Poverty or poor people, Nationalism, Greed, Jamaica or Jamaicans
- Locales: Jamaica
The Novel
New Day opens in 1944 on the eve of the granting of a new constitution, one of the last steps on the road to Jamaican political independence. One of the Jamaican leaders at the time is Garth Campbell, and the event prompts his eighty-seven-year-old great-uncle, Johnny Campbell, to think back to 1865 and his family’s participation in the colony’s frequently violent political development.
The first and longest of the novel’s three sections deals with the events of the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion. Although some historical figures appear in the novel,...
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