For a while things seem to be improving for the Cosways: Mr. She accepts, and the two wed in spite of the malicious gossip of the servants and local islanders. Mason, proposes to Annette after a short courtship. One of these men, an Englishman by the name of Mr. One day, for the first time in a long time, visitors come to Coulibri.
Since her mother frequently rejects her, Antoinette spends most of her time alone or with her black nurse, Christophine, one of the few servants who has not chosen to desert the struggling family. The family's estate, Coulibri, is quickly falling into ruin, and Antoinette's mother, Annette, is rapidly sinking into a deep depression. The first part of the novella is told from the point-of-view of Antoinette Cosway, a young white girl whose father, a hated former slaveholder, has died and left his wife and children in poverty. Wide Sargasso Sea begins in Jamaica after the Emancipation Act of 1833, under which Britain outlawed slavery in all its colonies.
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