Appadocca is intent on wreaking revenge on his father for abandoning him and his mother. Through his anger, he sails the seas with a band of pirates on a ship named the ""Black Schooner"". The text is enriched with Appadocca's reflections on nature, racism, slavery, colonialism and retribution.
The first Caribbean novel, an extraordinary tale of adventure and revenge on the high seas. "A true page-turner.... It captures the cold fury raging against racism, class oppression, and slavery behind the calm exterior of a European-trained, mixed-race intellectual of the early nineteenth century". -- William D. Piersen
