{"product_id":"9781945891038","title":"The Last Princess of Saint-Domingue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cu\u003eThe Last Princess of Saint-Domingue\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is the King’s principal wife, a Queen of the highest rank in the small African village. Hers is the admiration and respect from the villagers, especially from Mamma, the local shaman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMamma sees trouble coming. She hears the whispers in the twilight. She notices the subtle change of the wind. The ancestors’ calls. They chant to her. Beckon her. Instruct her on what to do when the trouble comes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Queen learns of the news from Mamma, but is un-phased by Mamma’s warnings. Instead, the Queen chooses to focus on her growing womb. On that precious seed that is slowly forming and developing into the girl child that the Queen prays for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMamma presses upon the Queen. Big trouble. It is coming. Soon. Trouble that will bring life and death. Trouble that will destroy and rebuild. Trouble that will take many years to heal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo the Queen’s dismay, the trouble arrives in the form of French slave merchants. They burn. They kill. They steal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMamma and the Queen suffer fatal destruction by the French slave merchants. But only after the Queen gives birth to the promised girl child. An unlikely, yet obedient village woman takes the girl child and momentarily escapes. Soon the child and her new foster mother become merciless products, dark-skin living goods whipped and shackled and cobbled into the hull of a crude slave ship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLanding in Saint-Domingue, the girl child, Bibi, is met with a peculiar land and people. She suffers through the perils of slavery on a sugarcane plantation. Yet as France’s call for revolution grows louder, the Saint-Domingue slaves grow restless. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibi soon joins the rallying cry. Through passion, strife, and loss, Bibi lives to see the day where she becomes the last princess of Saint-Domingue and the first daughter of Haiti.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"May 3rd Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033848266992,"sku":"9781945891038","price":11.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781945891038_p0.jpg?v=1763794783","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781945891038","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}