How is plantation life depicted in the novel, Ajeemah and His Son?

Plantation life is not drawn in great detail; the novella focuses more on how two men respond to the loss of their freedom, and their individual experiences during this ordeal. Even so, the complexity of plantation life is indicated. Alongside leather making shops, such as the one Ajeemah works in, there are stables, warehouses, slave quarters, great houses, and large fields of crops intended for export to England. Everywhere present in the grueling world of the plantation are the slaves: always angry at their oppressors, always yearning to kill their masters in an orgy of bloodletting, yet always degraded, abused, and without hope of ever being anything other than slaves. Most of the novella is about how Ajeemah comes to terms with his misery and how Atu fails to come to terms with his.