Solitude of Guadeloupe: Pregnant Black Freedom Fighter and Martyred Heroine | 
so-soSolitude was a young black woman freed from slavery after the French Revolution. But when Napoleon tried to restore slavery on the island of #Guadeloupe, while pregnant she joined and fought in the resistance. She was captured and executed the day after she gave birth. That‘s basically all that is known, but this author repeats it ad nauseum to fill more than half the book. The second half is a little about the resistance; it lost. The book ⬇️
Texreader has immense potential but is sorely wasted. The author‘s sources: the bulk are…wait for it…himself and other books he‘s written. I‘m very glad to learn about the existence of Solitude in our world history, but this is not the book to read if you want to learn anything more than I‘ve already shared. #readingtheAmericas 13mo
Librarybelle Yeesh. Not the Stephen King of history in my mind…😂 13mo
Texreader @Librarybelle Do you want to know why he calls himself that? Because he‘s “written” over 200 books. Well, when you repeat yourself and self-publish, I can see how that‘s possible 13mo
Librarybelle OMG…totally agree 13mo
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