It’s 1847, and poor Irish small farmers and their families are dying of starvation or typhoid fever due to the Potato Famine. SEAN O’SULLIVAN, a tenant potato farmer devastated by the Famine, works in a soup kitchen and travels with sustenance to feed the starving. He beats off hungry dogs gnawing at dead bodies and digs mass graves to bury the dead. He buries his mother behind their cabin, moments before the landlord burns it to the ground. Soon, he hears wealthy British landlords expressing reluctance to help feed the starving and contemplating shipping them off to North America. O’Sullivan escapes on a cargo ship to the slave-scourged Caribbean. A hurricane batters his ship and he slays a pirate who brutally murders his best friend. Penniless and alone in Jamaica, he’s employed by a cruel British planter. Slavery is abolished, and angry planters do everything to subjugate free blacks. Activists fighting for human rights are lynched. O’Sullivan wages a quiet war for the rights of African Jamaicans. He purchases two abandoned plantations and converts them into thriving farms owned by his ex-slaves. But O’Sullivan fights to maintain the farming community as rebellions loom under a powerful activist; his name is Marcus Garvey.
Books
THE IRISH CONNECTION BY NORMA JENNINGS
Product details
- ASIN : B0CBCLSZYF
- Publisher : Moonshine Cove Publishing, LLC (July 6, 2023)
- Publication date : July 6, 2023
- Language : English
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.