Caribbee

by Thomas Hoover

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CARIBBEE
(Doubleday, 1985)

Barbados and Jamaica 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.

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,...Read more
  • ISBN10 0370307054
  • ISBN13 9780370307053
  • Publish Date 20 March 1986 (first published 1 January 1985)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 12 June 1992
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Vintage Publishing
  • Imprint The Bodley Head Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 416
  • Language English