The Brothers

The brothers

By Robert Derry

Genre:-Horror Fiction/Historical Thriller

Pages:-431

Blurb:-"When I entered the city, I entered it with an undaunted spirit, determined that no labour should make me shrink, no danger nor even persecution deter me from my pursuit."

 Thomas Clarkson was the 'moral steam engine' behind the abolitionist movement of the late eighteenth century, without whom The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade would have been bereft of its champion.

 The Brothers tells the story of the early years of their struggle and the tale of a slave ship, The Brothers, as it departs from the port of Bristol en route to the Guinea Coast, under the vicious Captain Howlett.

 It traces the arduous journey of Clarkson, as he gathers evidence against The Trade from the slaving ports of England and the political efforts of Granville Sharp who, with the help of the Society, brings their first bill before a reluctant parliament. A disillusioned Doctor Gardiner, the ship's surgeon aboard The Brothers, agrees to keep a journal as evidence for the investigation, to record first-hand in all its horrors the maltreatment of slaves and crew at the hands of the sadistic officers, for whom the venture is all about one thing and one thing alone-profit. A young boy escapes from the clutches of the Bristol mob to find himself in service in Sharp's plush London residence, as four thousand miles away in the Caribbean, The Brithers sails away from its crime against humanity. But another force is rising from the very timbers of the ship's blood-infused frame-a nightmare that will push the troubled doctor to the very edge of insanity and threaten to bring a timely judgement upon them all.

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My Review:-An empowering story about the struggles to  abolish the slave trade in England. Thomas Clarkson was the person behind the abolitionist movement of the late eighteenth century. The author has put so much time and research into the slave trade and has put it down on these pages giving it depth and acknowledgement that is needed on something like this. Even though some of this book is fiction it is still heart breaking reading some parts. I know life has changed over the years, but to think that some of the slave trade is still going on.