Sign-In
Cart
Philippine Vol. 1: Children of the Sun
Paperback
Biographies GeneralCaribbean History
ISBN13: 9789768244512
Publisher: Paria Publishing Company Ltd.
Published: Jun 28 2023
Pages: 466
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.04 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is not a historical novel. This is a docudrama in book form. Philippine traces the adventurous life of an 18th century free coloured family in Grenada, Carriacou and Trinidad-with excursions into France, England and, aboard a French corsair raider, all over the Atlantic Ocean.
This, Book First of the trilogy that is Philippine, captures the lives of the Children of the Sun of Jeanette, Free Negro Woman of Grenada, and her French husband Honoré Philip. In it, Gérard Besson places the various members of the Philip family sharply etched against the historical backdrop of the Revolutionary Atlantic, when the people of the Western World began to strain against the shackles of monarchy and servitude and the revolutions of France and South and North America, including Haiti and Grenada, uprooted the social order.
We explore the lives and characters of each of Jeanette and Honoré's children based on whichever historical evidence we have-e.g. for Judith, there is an abundance of record that demonstrates her success as a planter and business woman, as opposed to Nicolas-Régis, where all we have is his will and wove a story around him with fiction and leaving the rest to the reader's imagination. Two other sons, Joachim and Honoré fils, gave their lives in the Fedon revolution; both were convicted and hanged for their principles in their attempt of an armed fight for the rights of the Free Blacks and People of Colour.
Philippine demonstrates how a mixed-race, slave-owning family was able to navigate those turbulent times so successfully, especially as it regards the upward mobility of the mulatto woman: all three daughters of Jeanette's marry white men, but the sons marry black or coloured women.
For the interested reader, the historical documents were placed on Gérard Besson's blog Caribbean History Archives (see QR code).
Also in
Caribbean History
Puerto Rico: Historia de Una Nación / Puerto Rico: A National History
Meléndez-Badillo, Jorell
Paperback
Guerra Contra Todos Los Puertorriqueños: Revolución Y Terror En La Colonia Americana
Denis, Nelson A.
Paperback
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
Goffe, Tao Leigh
Hardcover
Puerto Rico: An Interpretive History from Pre-Columbian Times to 1900
Jimenez De Wagenheim, Olga
Wagenheim, Olga Jimenez De
Paperback
La Isla de la Fantasia: El Colonialismo, La Explotacion Y La Traicion a Puerto Rico
Morales, Ed
Paperback
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
Woodard, Colin
Paperback
History of the Caribbean: Plantations, Trade, and War in the Atlantic World
Moya Pons, Frank
Paperback
Frontiers, Plantations, and Walled Cities: Essays on Society, Culture, and Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean (1800-1945)
Martinez-Fernandez, Luis
Paperback
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
James, C. L. R.
Paperback
San Mateo de Cangrejos: Historical Notes on a Self-Emancipated Black Community in Puerto Rico
Aponte Torres, Gilberto
Paperback
Queen of Cuba: An FBI Agent's Insider Account of the Spy Who Evaded Detection for 17 Years
Lapp, Peter J.
Hardcover
Alive in Their Garden: The True Story of the Mirabal Sisters and Their Fight for Freedom
Mirabal, Dedé
Paperback
Battleship Vieques: Puerto Rico from World War II to the Korean War
Ayala, Cesar J.
Ayala Casas, Cesar
Ayala Cass, Csar
Paperback
Our Comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959-1991
Yordanov, Radoslav
Hardcover
Us According to Them: Stateside Portrayals of Puerto Ricans and Their Culture, 1898-2010
Domenech, Ligia T.
Paperback
Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence
Materson, Lisa G.
Paperback
Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Schiebinger, Londa
Paperback
The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba
Lambe, Jennifer L.
Paperback
The Mother of Us All: A History of Queen Nanny, Leader of the Windward Jamaican Maroons
Karla, Gottlieb
Paperback
El Monte: Notes on the Religions, Magic, and Folklore of the Black and Creole People of Cuba
Cabrera, Lydia
Paperback
History of Cuba: A Captivating Guide to Cuban History, Starting from Christopher Columbus' Arrival to Fidel Castro
History, Captivating
Hardcover
Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World
Burnard, Trevor
Paperback
Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution
English, T. J.
Paperback
Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
Gibson, Carrie
Paperback
The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
Scott, Julius S.
Paperback
The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago
Jobson, Ryan Cecil
Paperback
The Life & Times of Alexander Hamilton: Two Apples that Fell from the Same Tree
Dodds, Robert Gary
Hardcover
A Historical View 1905 - 1999: Church of God (Full Gospel Hall) Bay Islands, Cayman Islands, Isle of Pines
Edwards, Curtis
Paperback
Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana
Leogrande, William M.
Kornbluh, Peter
Paperback
Freedom and Resistance: A Social History of Black Loyalists in the Bahamas
Curry, Christopher
Paperback
Narcotrafico Y Tareas Revolucionarias El Concepto Cubano (Large Print Edition)
Fuentes, Norberto
Paperback
History of Pirates: A Captivating Guide to the Golden Age of Piracy and the Infamous Pirates Who Ruled the Seas
History, Captivating
Hardcover
Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean
Morgan, Philip D.
McNeill, John R.
Mulcahy, Matthew
Paperback
The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making
Crawford, Sharika D.
Paperback
The History of the Cayman Islands: From Buccaneers to Bankers
Hansen, Einar Felix
Bodden, Liam John
Paperback
Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence
Materson, Lisa G.
Hardcover
Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
Beckles, Hilary MCD
Paperback
I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom
Gaffield, Julia
Hardcover
Cultural Adaptation and Resistance on St. John: Three Centuries of Afro-Caribbean Life
Olwig, Karen F.
Paperback
One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964
Naftali, Timothy
Fursenko, Aleksandr
Paperback
Reclaiming Haiti's Futures: Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination
Dubuisson, Darlène Elizabeth
Paperback
The Banana Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Interventions of the United States in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
History, Captivating
Hardcover
What Manner of Man Is This?: The Duke of Windsor's Years in The Bahamas
Turnquest, Orville A.
Paperback
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Or, a Faithful Narrative of the Horrid and Unexampled Massacres Committed by the Popish Spanish Pa
de Las Casas, Bartolome
Paperback
Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
Kurson, Robert
Paperback
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
Risen, Clay
Paperback
Cuba on the Labels: A Selection of Cuba-Themed Cigar Labels Printed Outside of Cuba
Cueto, Emilio
Paperback
Conquistador Voices (vol I): The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants
Siepel, Kevin H.
Paperback
The Subject of Revolution: Between Political and Popular Culture in Cuba
Lambe, Jennifer L.
Hardcover
Us According to Them: Stateside Portrayals of Puerto Ricans and Their Culture, 1898-2010
Domenech, Ligia T.
Hardcover
The Brilliant Disaster: Jfk, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs
Rasenberger, Jim
Paperback
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
Risen, Clay
Hardcover
Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 /]cpiero Gleijeses
Gleijeses, Piero
Paperback
A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity: Language, Social Practice, and Identity Within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism
Feliciano-Santos, Sherina
Paperback
The First Black Slave Society: Britain's Barbarity Time in Barbados, 1636-1876
Beckles, Hilary MCD
Paperback
Epidemic Invasions: Yellow Fever and the Limits of Cuban Independence, 1878-1930
Espinosa, Mariola
Paperback