Book description
From the author of the bestselling and award-winning WITCH CHILD, comes another outstanding historical novel.
When two young women meet under extraordinary circumstances in the eighteenth-century West Indies, they are unified in their desire to escape their oppressive lives. The first is a slave, forced to work in a plantation…
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2 authors picked Pirates! as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Pirates! Historical fiction for young adults and anyone who enjoys a sea story with twists and turns aplenty, this novel begins in Bristol, England in the eighteenth century. Nancy Kingston’s father is a shipowner whose money comes from sugar plantations and enslaved labor in Jamaica. A tragedy makes sixteen-year-old Nancy his heiress; her brothers send her to the West Indies to marry. But life takes a surprising turn; she and the enslaved maid Minerva, escape to become pirates in the Caribbean. If you’re looking for an absorbing, multicultural tale of girls who go in search of adventure and freedom amidst…
From Barbara's list on women seafarers and pirates.
This is a historical novel about a young English woman who, after the death of her father, travels to Jamaica to live on her family’s sugar plantation. While she is there, she realizes that her older brother plans to sell her off in marriage to a cruel fellow plantation owner and merchant. Together with her young, enslaved companion, who was attacked by the plantation overseer, the two young women run away and join a group of pirates. They sign the Articles and have piratical adventures around the world. I recommend this book because it is brilliantly researched and shows the…
From Rebecca's list on the lives of pirates.
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