ACTION-CRAMMED, HISTORICALLY FACTUAL

About this eBook

Author

Hoover, Thomas, 1941-

Title

Caribbee

Credits

Produced by Al Haines

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Barbados -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

34317

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34317

Release Date

November 14, 2010

Copyright

Copyrighted. Read the copyright notice inside this book for details.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.CARIBBEE — Barbados, 1648. The lush and deadly Caribbean paradise, domain of rebels and freeholders, of brigands, bawds and buccaneers. CARIBBEE is the untold story of the first American revolution, as English colonists pen a Declaration of Defiance ("liberty" or "death") against Parliament and fight a full-scale war for freedom against an English fleet -- with cannon, militia, many lives lost -- over a century before 1776. An assured, literate saga, the novel is brimming with the rough and tumble characters who populated the early American colonies. — The powerful story line, based on actual events, also puts the reader in the midst of the first major English slave auction in the Americas, and the first slave revolt. We see how plantation slavery was introduced into the English colonies, setting a cruel model for North America a few decades later, and we experience what it was like to be a West African ripped from a rich culture and forced to slave in the fields of the New World. We also see the unleashed greed of the early Puritans, who burned unruly slaves alive, a far different truth from that presented in sanitized history books. Finally, we witness how slavery contributed to the failure of the first American revolution, as well as to the destruction of England's hope for a vast New World empire. We also are present at the birth of the buccaneers, one-time cattle hunters who banded together to revenge a bloody Spanish attack on their home, and soon became the most feared marauders in the New World. The story is mythic in scope, with the main participants being classic American archetypes -- a retelling of the great American quest for freedom and honor. The major characters are based on real individuals, men and women who came West to the New World to seek fortune and personal dignity. Publisher's Weekly said, "This action-crammed, historically factual novel . . . is a rousing read about the bad old marauding days, ably researched by Hoover." — BOOKS BY THOMAS HOOVER — Nonfiction — Fiction — The Caribbean — TEN YEARS LATER . . . — Book One — BARBADOS — Chapter One — Chapter Two — Chapter Three — Chapter Four — Bi a ko jiya ti o kun agbon — A ko le jore to kun inu aha — A se'gi oko ma we oko — A s’agada ja'ri erin — A se were lo nko — O ko ko ogbon — Chapter Five — Chapter Six — Chapter Seven
3. 3.Chapter Eight — Chapter Nine — Chapter Ten — — — Chapter Eleven — Chapter Twelve — Chapter Thirteen
4. 4.Chapter Fourteen — Chapter Fifteen — Chapter Sixteen — Chapter Seventeen — Chapter Eighteen — Chapter Twenty-two — Nonfiction — Fiction

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