Historical Drama 'The Long Song' to Air on Masterpiece
As part of its 50th-anniversary season, Masterpiece announced that critically acclaimed drama The Long Song will premiere in the U.S this January.
The three-part series is set during the dying days of slavery on the British-ruled Caribbean island of Jamaica in 1838, a period of social turbulence. The story begins at Amity sugar plantation, where a strong-willed young slave July is working as a lady’s maid for her odious mistress Caroline Mortimer, who is shallow, foolish, and ill-suited to life on the island.
When a charming new arrival to the island, Robert Goodwin (Lowden), becomes the new overseer at Amity, July and Caroline are both intrigued by his seemingly revolutionary determination to improve the plantation for the slaves and mistress alike. But his arrival has consequences which none of them could predict.
