‘My name is not Angelica’ is a 1989 novel written by an American writer Scott O’Dell. This historical fiction takes place during the slave insurrection that started in the West Indies on November 23, 1733, when 150 African slaves from Akhwamu (Ghana) revolted against the owners of the island`s plantations.
A 16-year-old young girl, Raisha, snatched from her home in Africa, and carried across the sea in a plague-ridden ship, she found herself standing on the platform of a slave market in the West Indies on the island of St. John and so began her life as a house slave on the plantation of Jost Van Pork. Even as a sheltered house servant, Raisha cannot ignore the terrible suffering of other slaves. She was a daughter of a powerful tribal counselor and her fiancé, prince Konje are sold into slavery by a rival tribe. Raisha was renamed angelica. Hit by drought and hurricanes, the struggling owners enforce long hours, provide rotten food, and cruelly punished them even for small infractions. Many slaves, including Konje, join a runaway camp; every night their drums tell of the coming rebellion. But when Raisha joined the rebels, she finds them starving and weaponless. To know if Raisha, Konje, and the other slaves rebelled and whether they were free read this historic novel ‘My name is not Angelica’. Once again, Scott O’Dell has brought brilliantly to life the great slave revolt of 1733, told by Raisha, not Angelica.
Joshna N, 7-D
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