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A lovely little creature but sly, spiteful, malignant perhaps, like much else in this place.

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A lovely little creature but sly, spiteful, malignant perhaps, like much else in this place.

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Page 39. Rochester describing Amélie.

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'And who was massacred here? Slaves?'    'Oh no.' She sounded shocked.

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'And who was massacred here? Slaves?'    'Oh no.' She sounded shocked.

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Page 39. Rochester asking about the name of the place they are in. Note: there is a paragraph break between the dialogue.

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They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. But we were not in their ranks.

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They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. But we were not in their ranks.

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Page 5

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...far too young for him they thought, and, worse still, a Martinique girl.

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...far too young for him they thought, and, worse still, a Martinique girl.

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Page 5. Talking about Annette.

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One calm evening he shot his dog, swam out to sea and was gone for always.

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One calm evening he shot his dog, swam out to sea and was gone for always.

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Page 5

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(they notice clothes, they know about money).

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(they notice clothes, they know about money).

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Page 5. Talking about black people.

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(My father, visitors, horses, feeling safe in bed  – all belonged to the past.)

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(My father, visitors, horses, feeling safe in bed  – all belonged to the past.)

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Page 5.

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Page 6. Annette when her horse dies.

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She grew thin and silent, and at last she refused to leave the house at all.

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She grew thin and silent, and at last she refused to leave the house at all.

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Page 6. Talking about Annette.

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Our garden was large and beautiful as that garden in the Bible.

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Our garden was large and beautiful as that garden in the Bible.

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Page 6.

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All Coulibri Estate had gone wild like a garden, gone to bush. No more slavery – why should anybody work?

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All Coulibri Estate had gone wild like a garden, gone to bush. No more slavery – why should anybody work?

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Page 6. Note: the "anybody" is in italics.

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though she could speak good English if she wanted to, and French as well as patois, she took care to talk as they talked.

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though she could speak good English if she wanted to, and French as well as patois, she took care to talk as they talked.

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Page 7. Talking about Christophine. Comparing her to the other Jamaican former slave women.

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To die and be forgotten and at peace. Not to know that one is abandoned, lied about, helpless.

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To die and be forgotten and at peace. Not to know that one is abandoned, lied about, helpless.

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Page 8.

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I never looked at any strange negro. They hated us.

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I never looked at any strange negro. They hated us.

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Page 9

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Soon Tia was my Friend and I met her nearly every morning at the turn of the road to the river.

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Soon Tia was my Friend and I met her nearly every morning at the turn of the road to the river.

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Page 9.

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'Keep them then, you cheating nigger,' I said, for I was tired, and the water I swallowed made me feel sick.

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'Keep them then, you cheating nigger,' I said, for I was tired, and the water I swallowed made me feel sick.

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Page 10.

Note: This is the moment that Antoinette's relationship with Tia becomes racialised. It's the moment they are no longer friends.

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Old time white people nothing but white nigger now, and black nigger better than white nigger.

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Old time white people nothing but white nigger now, and black nigger better than white nigger.

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Page 10. Tia's response after Antoinette calls her a racial slur.

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No more slavery! She had to laugh! These new ones have Letter of the Law. Same thing. They got magistrate. They got fine. They got jail house and chain gang.

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No more slavery! She had to laugh! These new ones have Letter of the Law. Same thing. They got magistrate. They got fine. They got jail house and chain gang.

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Page 11

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And all those women! She never did anything to stop him – she encouraged him. Presents and smiles for the bastards every Christmas. Old customs? Some old customs are better dead and buried.

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And all those women! She never did anything to stop him – she encouraged him. Presents and smiles for the bastards every Christmas. Old customs? Some old customs are better dead and buried.

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Page 13. Talking about Antoinette's parents.

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I was certain that hidden in the room (behind the old black press?) there was a dead man's dried hand, white chicken feathers, a cock with its throat cut, dying slowly.

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I was certain that hidden in the room (behind the old black press?) there was a dead man's dried hand, white chicken feathers, a cock with its throat cut, dying slowly.

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Page 14. Antoinette feeling fear while waiting in Christophine's room.

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Don't you fly at me like a little wild cat when I say nigger. Not nigger, nor even Negro. Black people I must say.

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Don't you fly at me like a little wild cat when I say nigger. Not nigger, nor even Negro. Black people I must say.

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Page 15. Mr Mason talking to Annette.

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'They're too damn lazy to be dangerous,' said Mr Mason

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'They're too damn lazy to be dangerous,' said Mr Mason

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Page 16.

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'They are more alive than you are, lazy or not, and they can be dangerous and cruel for reasons you wouldn't understand.'

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'They are more alive than you are, lazy or not, and they can be dangerous and cruel for reasons you wouldn't understand.'

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Page 16. Annette talking about the former slaves.

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But you were never molested, never harmed.

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But you were never molested, never harmed.

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Page 15. Mr Mason talking about the former slaves to Annette.

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Page 16. Note: The word "smell" is italicised. Talking about Sass's return to Coulibri after Mr Mason fixes it up.

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We ate English food now, beef and mutton, pies and puddings.

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We ate English food now, beef and mutton, pies and puddings.

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Page 17.

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Live here most of your life and know nothing about the people. It's astonishing. They are children – they wouldn't hurt a fly.

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Live here most of your life and know nothing about the people. It's astonishing. They are children – they wouldn't hurt a fly.

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Page 18. Mr Mason talking about the former slaves.

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'Not a wedding,' I said. 'There is never a wedding.' He frowned at me but Aunt Cora smiled.

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'Not a wedding,' I said. 'There is never a wedding.' He frowned at me but Aunt Cora smiled.

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Page 16. Mr Mason's confusion about what the former slaves (current apprentices) are doing answered by Antoinette.

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Creole of pure English descent she may be, but they are not English or European either.

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Creole of pure English descent she may be, but they are not English or European either.

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Page 40.

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The Young Bull laughed loudly. 'He don't know how old he is, he don't think about it. I tell you sir these people are not civilized.'

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The Young Bull laughed loudly. 'He don't know how old he is, he don't think about it. I tell you sir these people are not civilized.'

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Page 41. The Young Bull (a former slave) ridiculing Emile, another former slave.

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Everything is too much, I felt as I rode wearily after her. Too much blue, too much purple, too much green. The flowers too red, the mountains too high, the hills too near.

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Everything is too much, I felt as I rode wearily after her. Too much blue, too much purple, too much green. The flowers too red, the mountains too high, the hills too near.

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Page 42.

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My stepfather talked about a plan to import labourers – coolies he called them – from the East Indies

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My stepfather talked about a plan to import labourers – coolies he called them – from the East Indies

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Page 17. Referring to low-wage Indian workers.

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I was glad to be like an English girl but I missed the taste of Christophine's cooking.

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I was glad to be like an English girl but I missed the taste of Christophine's cooking.

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Page 17.

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Page 20. Mr Mason talking about the black people who were beginning to show their outrage outside of Coulibri Estate.

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Page 21. Describing the angry group of black people who had congregated outside of Coulibri Estate.

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After Mr Mason clipped his wings he grew very bad tempered, and though he would sit quietly on my mother's shoulder, he darted at everyone who came near her and pecked their feet.

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After Mr Mason clipped his wings he grew very bad tempered, and though he would sit quietly on my mother's shoulder, he darted at everyone who came near her and pecked their feet.

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Page 22. Describing Coco the parrot.

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everybody was looking up and pointing at Coco on the glacis railings with his feathers alight. He made an effort to fly down, but his clipped wings failed him and he fell screeching. He was all on fire.

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everybody was looking up and pointing at Coco on the glacis railings with his feathers alight. He made an effort to fly down, but his clipped wings failed him and he fell screeching. He was all on fire.

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Page 22-3.

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The man said, 'So black and white, they burn the same, eh?'

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The man said, 'So black and white, they burn the same, eh?'

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Page 23.

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What you think people believe, eh? You, or the white nigger?

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What you think people believe, eh? You, or the white nigger?

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Page 23. The slaves discussing whether they should allow Antoinette's family to pass.

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As I ran, I thought, I will live with Tia and I will be like her. Not to leave Coulibri. Not to go. Not.

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As I ran, I thought, I will live with Tia and I will be like her. Not to leave Coulibri. Not to go. Not.

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Page 24.

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I looked at her and I saw her face crumple up as she began to cry. We stared at each other, blood on my face, tears on hers. It was as if I saw myself. Like in a looking-glass.

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I looked at her and I saw her face crumple up as she began to cry. We stared at each other, blood on my face, tears on hers. It was as if I saw myself. Like in a looking-glass.

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Page 24. Antoinette talking about Tia after she has thrown a rock at her.

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What was the use of welling her that I'd been awake before and heard my mother screaming 'Qui est là? Qui est là?' then 'Don't touch me. I'll kill you if you touch me. Coward. Hypocrite. I'll kill you.'

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What was the use of welling her that I'd been awake before and heard my mother screaming 'Qui est là? Qui est là?' then 'Don't touch me. I'll kill you if you touch me. Coward. Hypocrite. I'll kill you.'

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Page 25. Antoinette's conversation with Aunt Cora.

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It was as if I’d expected it, been waiting for it

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It was as if I’d expected it, been waiting for it

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After Rochester reads Daniel Cosway’s letter page 62

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Page 26.

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The boy... had a white skin, a dull ugly white with freckles, his mouth was a negro's mouth... Worst, most horrible of all, his hair was crinkled, a negro's hair, but bright red

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The boy... had a white skin, a dull ugly white with freckles, his mouth was a negro's mouth... Worst, most horrible of all, his hair was crinkled, a negro's hair, but bright red

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Page 26-7. Antoinette describing the boy who taunted her.

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She have eyes like zombi and you have eyes like zombi too.

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She have eyes like zombi and you have eyes like zombi too.

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Page 27. Black girl taunting Antoinette about her mother.

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Page 87. Antionette talking to Rochester

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He had long legs, his feet hardly touched the ground.

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He had long legs, his feet hardly touched the ground.

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Page 28. Antoinette's description of Sandi.

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Page 87. Antoinette’s response to Rochester calling her Bertha

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I would have died sooner than run when they were there.

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I would have died sooner than run when they were there.

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Page 28. Antoinette talking about the black children who taunted her.

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She need not have done what she did to me. I will always swear that, she need not have done it

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She need not have done what she did to me. I will always swear that, she need not have done it

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Page 87.

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“That is what I remember most about the encounter. She was so gay, so natural and something of this gaiety she must have given to me…”, “I had no wish to touch her and she knew it…”, “Before I left I wanted to give her a present. It was a large present…”

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“That is what I remember most about the encounter. She was so gay, so natural and something of this gaiety she must have given to me…”, “I had no wish to touch her and she knew it…”, “Before I left I wanted to give her a present. It was a large present…”

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page 89-90 Rochester’s affair with Amelie and his disposal of her post sexual release

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Linking with post before, ‘her skin was darker, lips thicker than I thought’

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Linking with post before, ‘her skin was darker, lips thicker than I thought’

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Page 89. Rochester describes his experiences with Amelie

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‘When we went to England’ Antoinette, ‘You fool, this is England, Grace Pool, ‘I don’t believe it’ Antoinette 

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‘When we went to England’ Antoinette, ‘You fool, this is England, Grace Pool, ‘I don’t believe it’ Antoinette 

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Page 119.

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I noticed that he did not call me ‘sir’ or ‘master’

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I noticed that he did not call me ‘sir’ or ‘master’

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Page 91. Rochester talking about Baptiste

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She is intelligent in her way and can express herself well, but I did not like the look of her at all, and consider her a most dangerous person 

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She is intelligent in her way and can express herself well, but I did not like the look of her at all, and consider her a most dangerous person 

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Page 91-92. From a letter Mr. Fraser wrote describing Christophine

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Her hair hung uncombed and dull into her eyes which were inflamed and staring, her face was very flushed and look swollen. Her feet were bare. However when she spoke her voice was low, almost inaudible 

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Her hair hung uncombed and dull into her eyes which were inflamed and staring, her face was very flushed and look swollen. Her feet were bare. However when she spoke her voice was low, almost inaudible 

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Page 93. Rochester describes Antoinette

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This red-eyed wild-haired stranger who was my wife shouting obscenities at me. It was at this nightmare moment that I heard Christophine’s calm voice.  

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This red-eyed wild-haired stranger who was my wife shouting obscenities at me. It was at this nightmare moment that I heard Christophine’s calm voice.  

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Page 95

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“I looked into her lovely meaningless face”

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“I looked into her lovely meaningless face”

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Page 89. Rochester after sleeping with Amelie

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(They notice clothes, they know about money).

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(They notice clothes, they know about money).

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This shows that Antoinette saw slaves as less than human as this implies the thought that before the slavery emancipation, slaves simply didn’t develop as humans mentally. Therefore by dehumanising them this way she assumes that they would not have basic knowledge of human necessities.

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"Germaine's grey eyes were beautiful, she spoke slowly and, unlike most Creole girls, was very even-tempered."

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"Germaine's grey eyes were beautiful, she spoke slowly and, unlike most Creole girls, was very even-tempered."

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This is quoted by Antoinette, during her time at the Mount Calvary convent in Spanish town. This description of Germaine depicts Antoinette's desire to appease Mr Mason's expectation of her adhering to her "racial pedigree"

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“Before I left I wanted to give her a present”

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“Before I left I wanted to give her a present”

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Rochester referring to Amelie