Daniel Defoe's fifth novel, Colonel Jack is the supposed
autobiography of an English gentleman who begins life as a child of
the London streets. He and his two brothers (both also named Jack)
are brought up as pickpockets and highwaymen, but Colonel Jack
seeks to improve himself. Kidnapped and taken to America, he
becomes first a slave, then an overseer on plantations in Maryland
and Virginia. Returning to England, he is drawn into the Jacobite
rebellion and into a succession of marriages, all of which end
badly for him. Escaping back to Virginia, Jack becomes a successful
planter, ending his life as a gentleman despite his mistakes along
the way. Historical appendices relate to eighteenth-century
Virginia and Maryland and contemporary crime, punishment, and
imprisonment.
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