Caribee Thomas Hoover

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Softcover in Good Condition Barbados and Jamaica, 1648.The lush and deadly Caribbean paradise, domain of rebels and slaveholders, of bawds and buccaneers. Where the flames of revol ution exploded a full 130 years before engulfing the American mainland. And where a dark, enslaved race secretly practiced the mysterious religious rites of a distant continent while daring to whisper the forbidden word..."Freedom."The sweeping tale of Hugh Winston, lusty, swashbuckling captain of The Defiance,>/i> and the lovely, tempestuous firebrand Katherine Bedford; two lovers trapped in a bloody pitched battle against the overwhelming forces of British tyranny. A story of love and betrayal, of slavery, war, and piracy in the exotic land that gave birth to the fiery American ideal of "Liberty Or Death." Show more