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CARIBBEE
Barbados, 1648.The lush and deadly Caribbean paradise, domain of rebels and freeholders, ofbrigands, bawds and buccaneers.
CARIBBEE is the untold story of the first American revolution, as Englishcolonists pen a Declaration of Defiance ("liberty" or"death") against Parliament and fight a full-scale war for freedomagainst an English fleet -- with cannon, militia, many lives lost -- over acentury before 1776.
An assured, literate saga, the novel is brimming with the rough and tumblecharacters who populated the early American colonies.
The powerful story line, based on actual events, also puts the reader in themidst of the first major English slave auction in the Americas, and the firstslave revolt. We see how plantation slavery was introduced into the Englishcolonies, setting a cruel model for North America a few decades later, and weexperience what it was like to be a West African ripped from a rich culture andforced to slave in the fields of the New World. We also see the unleashed greedof the early Puritans, who burned unruly slaves alive, a far different truthfrom that presented in sanitized history books. Finally, we witness how slaverycontributed to the failure of the first American revolution, as well as to thedestruction of England's hope for a vast New World empire.
We also are present at the birth of the buccaneers, one-time cattle hunters whobanded together to revenge a bloody Spanish attack on their home, and soonbecame the most feared marauders in the New World. The story is mythic inscope, with the main participants being classic American archetypes -- aretelling of the great American quest for freedom and honor. The majorcharacters are based on real individuals, men and women who came West to theNew 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 byHoover."
“ACTION-CRAMMED,HISTORICALLY FACTUAL ... A ROUSING READ"
"METICULOUS. . . COMPELLING"
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