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The Women Who Stand Between
The Women Who Stand Between
The Women Who Stand Between
FULL BOOK TITLE: The Women Who Stand Between
AUTHOR NAME: Jeannée Sacken
PUBLISHER NAME: Ten16 Press
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THREE STORIES. ONE FORGOTTEN TRUTH.
A powerful historical fiction collection tracing the untold journey from Africa to the Caribbean—through prophecy, survival, and resistance.
Step into the erased history of the Americas: a haunting saga of Indigenous survival, African resilience, and the violent birth of a colonial empire.
In MOUSSANE – The River’s Daughter, a sacred healer along the Gambia River is tormented by visions of distant ships, unable to shake the sense that her world is about to break. In BEYOND – The Door of No Return, her worst fears become real as slave raiders descend—tearing Dembe, her beloved husband, from her arms and dragging him across the Middle Passage in chains. Their stories converge in Blood for Pearls, set on Cubagua, where the first African slaves and Caribbean natives are forced into the deadly pearl trade under the rule of the Spanish Crown. There, Dembe and Charaima unite to defy an empire built on blood and greed.
These are the stories they never taught — the first genocide, the first enslavement, and the voices that refused to be silenced.
AUTHOR PROFILE
Peter Von Perle is an American researcher and writer who was born and raised in Venezuela, where he developed a lifelong passion for saltwater pearls and the history that accompanies them.
Peter found his way into the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS© when he was involved with the largest concentration of pearls, and his subsequent trailer and screenplay BLOOD FOR PEARLS won him numerous awards at Film Festivals around the world.
Since 2011, Peter has been traveling the world, interviewing a myriad of experts, and unearthing new and important facts surrounding this controversial period of world history.
