James L. Sweeney

The Mercenary's Women (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Khumbi is a young Bantu herd boy suffering from a drought and famine. He is sold to a Swahili trader and taken from his surviving family to Angola, where is traded to a Mbundu family. He develops a relationship with their daughter but is sold again to the Swahili trader. He is captured by land-pirates who engage in ritual cannibalism. He is trained as a child soldier and excels in his new role, acquiring two concubines and senior warrior status. He is distraught over their eventual loss, participates in significant historical battles in both Angola and Brazil, where he is taken as a mercenary. His adventures include joining the largest community of escaped slaves in the Americas, and traversing the length of Brazil with a Tupi Indian trader and his family mostly by canoe. He has always had few choices in life, but now is able to find a loving wife and a new, free life among the Caribs of St. Vincent Island in the Caribbean. I became interested in researching the history of the Black Caribs of St. Vincent Island while preparing for a master's thesis in history. I continued reading about the Caribs, Caribbean history, and the people brought to the Caribbean as forced labor. I wanted to depict what it must have been like for these people from their imagined point of view and how they may have contributed to the blended ethnic group, the Black Caribs or Garifuna of St. Vincent Island. I visited St. Vincent four times and the last Carib reserve on Dominica once to see their mock-up traditional village. I began writing a series about the Black Caribs ten years ago. I have been working on my writing craft by taking classes, earning a writing certificate at Stanford University, and a masters in fine arts/fiction at the University of California, Riverside. I attend writers' conferences and belong to the Historical Novel Society. My article 'Caribs, Maroons, Jacobins, Brigands, and Sugar Barons' appeared on several online scholarly websites and was published in an anthology about the Black Caribs. I published my first novel, Chatoyer: Freedom's War Chief, in 2022 via Book Baby. Education: BA Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, MAs Education/PE, Humanities/History, Anthropology, Fine Arts/fiction, Ph.D. Education. I taught college and secondary students in Panama, Japan, Italy, and Spain. Now retired, I enjoy writing and paddling Hawaiian outrigger canoes in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BookBaby
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798986479538
• Artikelnr.: 72585675