Fire, Sword and Sea by Vanessa Riley
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Fire, Sword and Sea by Vanessa Riley
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Jane Healey talks with Vanessa Riley about Fire, Sword and Sea, her historical novel inspired by Jacquotte Delahaye, a Black woman who rose from a tavern keeper’s daughter to become a pirate captain in the 1600s Caribbean. Riley shares how a visit to Port Royal sparked the novel and why reconstructing Jacquotte’s life required extensive research and careful triangulation from the records of better-documented contemporaries. They also dig into the surprising diversity of Caribbean pirate crews, the brutal role of enslavement in the region’s economy, and Riley’s commitment to portraying history with both honesty and humanity.
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