Signares': The Women of Gore'e Island

by Gorée, Richard Harrison
ISBN: 9781728346816
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Overview

This novel sheds light on a mysterious aspects of Senegalese History during the transatlantic slave trade of the 1700's: A portrait of the life and time of the Signare's and the infamous House of Slaves on Gore'e Island. This fictional illustration focuses how a unique society of "mulatto" women that inhabited the island who found their empowerment within the midst of a European aristocratic economic system by wielding their sexuality and intellect as lethal weapons.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Gorée, Richard Harrison
  • ISBN: 9781728346816
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 9.00 x 0.57
  • Number Of Pages: 250
  • Publication Year: 2020
Language: English