Signares': The Women of Gore'e Island

By Richard Harrison Goree

Book 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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1728346819
• ISBN13: 9781728346816
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"