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São Tome: Journey to the Abyss--Portugal's Stolen Children
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by Paul D. Cohn
Sales Rank: 333683
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List Price: $14.00
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Cover Type: Paperback with 340 pages
Published by: Burns-Cole Pub; First edition December 31, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0964587602
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0964587601
Book Dimensions:
8.3 x 5.5 x 1 inches
Weighs: 14.4 ounces
Book Description
In 1485 the Portuguese Crown and Catholic Church began to kidnap Jewish children, forcibly convert the young conscripts, and ship them to Sao Tome Island off the African equator to work the government sugar plantations. The collision of slavery, sugar agriculture, and discovery of The Americas transformed this island colony into the nidus of the wholesale black slave trade that infected Africa and Western commerce for the next 350 years. Sao Tome reveals the Medieval Churchs complicity in the business of human bondage.
This little-known chapter of the Diaspora tells the story of young Marcel Saulo and his sister Leah abducted with other children from their synagogue in Lisbon and shipped by caravel 4,000 miles to the West-African island where they bear witness to the holocaust of African slavery. This is a historical novel that chronicles one mans courageous struggle against religious and racial persecution, torture, and disease, and explores the abyss of Inquisition, Portuguese and Spanish world expansion, and the blight of Slavery fueled by the calamitous growth of sugar commerce.
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Stellar Pre-Publication Reviews for Paul Cohn's São Tomé
"São Tomé a powerful story I admired the strength and confidence in the writing. The setting and characters are richly drawn, and I especially enjoyed the vivid details that make the unfolding events resonate sharply with the reader riveting." --Michael Peitsch, Sr. Vice President/Publisher, Little, Brown & Co.
"A potent mix of characters and action, Paul Cohn's São Tomé is historical fiction at its finest." --Sid Gustafson, Prisoners of Flight
"São Tomé great research, emotionally powerful, the drama is terrific. I got hooked!" --Carl Lennertz, Vice President, HarperCollins Publishers
"truly a fascinating story, so well-researched. The details are transfixing." --Stacey N. Barney, Editor, Amistad Books/HarperCollins
"São Tomé is rich and potent, depicted with impressive authority throughout." --Leigh Feldman, Darhansoff, Verrill, Feldman Literary Agency
Reader Reviews
Sometime around the end of the 15th century, the Portuguese Inquisition began kidnapping Jewish children from their families and expatriating them to the remote island of Sao Tome off the African coast, where they were forcibly converted to Catholicism and sent to work as slaves on the sugar plantations. When the Western Hemisphere was split between Spain and Portugal with Spain receiving the lion's share of the spoils, the Portuguese realized that while Spain got most of the territory, Portugal could get rich from importing slaves to work the land. Sao Tome became one of the first jump-off points for the voyage through the middle passage, through which 25 million Africans were transported to the Americas on the slave ships. Paul Cohn tells the story of Sao Tome through a young Portuguese Jew, Marcel Saulo, who is kidnapped and sent to the island at the age of 14, enduring the trials of semi-slavery, ultimately freeing himself and working his own sugar plantation with African servants of his own. How he runs afoul of the island regimes that insist that all blacks be subjugated to slavery while he treats his own servants as free men and women, and his problems with maintaining his Jewish identity and heritage while passing as a Catholic in order to survive the Inquisition, whose long arm reached even as far as Sao Tome, make up the backbone of the story. Cohn is a gifted storyteller and he has written a page-turner that keeps you interested in the plot from beginning to end. The plot, and the historical background, are fascinating enough to overcome the book's one-dimensional characters and pedestrian writing. Cohn did manage to hold my interest enough to make me want to learn more about this period in history, which makes the book ultimately succeed as a historical novel. Judy Lind
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