Rafin R. Mena

Es esta una novela histórica que cuenta el anecdotario del siglo 19 a través de la tripulación de una Goleta o Velero de Carga que salia de Barceloneta en el Norte de Puerto Rico, tocando los puertos de Norte de la Repub. Dominicana, Fort Liberte en Haití y Santiago de Cuba. Se ve envuelta en los conflictos bélicos de la Restauración de Santo Domingo, el Grito de Lares, los Bucaneros de la Isla de la Tortuga, trae la primera maquina de vapor para el Trapiche de la Hacienda la Esperanza del Marques de la Esperanza, Se ve atrapada entre la marina de guerra de Espana y la Norteamericana y es participe estas guerras en muchas formas.… (plus d'informations)

An extraordinary researched book about an extraordinary woman in extraordinary Haitian Revolution, and its Voodoo rites. An excellent source to study the human aspects of the Haitian Revolution from both perspectives: the French and the Creole. Its describes and is its background, when Haiti was the most prosperous and rich colony in the new world and Cape Haitian was considered the Paris of the Caribbean.. It describes the struggle of the slaves to to produce the goods which made this colony so rich. It also shows how Napoleon intervened to recuperate Hatti right after the Revolution, and was defeated at the end. Marie Cesette and her family were active actors in the Revolution. She was the mother of Alex Dumas a General in the Napoleonic Armies described in the John Reese novel: The Black Count. The novel describes the .attempts made by Alexander Dumas, Pere, ro find his grandmother plantation in Geremie, Haiti. It is also the sad love story between Thomas De la Peleitterie and Marie Cesette.… (plus d'informations)