Sugar

by Christopher Pilie

Overview

Christopher Pilie's long anticipated historical fiction novel "Sugar" explores the life of those that live on the island of Saint Domingue in the late 18th Century. Those that lived on the island were a part of very complicated cast system that was made up of several groups.

• The Grand Blanc - plantation owners, Artisans, and Merchants - were the wealthy class of people that were the minority in numbers on the island. At the time of the revolution, the population was approximately 25 thousand.
• The Affranchis - freed slaves, mulattos, quadroons, etc - were the middle class of people that were another minority in numbers on the island. At the time of the revolution, the population was approximately 25 thousand.
• The Slaves were the lower class of people mostly of African descent. At the time of the revolution, the population was approximately 500 thousand.

The injustices experienced by the Affranchis and the Slaves boiled over from 1789 to 1791 as the world began to experience a shift.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798855672480
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	01/01/2024
Series:	Crimson Rada , #1
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Christopher Pilie’ was born in 1974 and grew up near the city of New Orleans. His family has been a part of the foundation of the historic parts of the French Quarter. While growing up in New Orleans and the deep south, Christopher learned about the region’s complex socio-economic culture and became fascinated with its origins and evolution. Through his studies, he learned of the cultural influences of the Spanish, Germans, French, English, Native Americans, Haitians, and Africans and became fascinated by the ways these cultures clashed and melded together.

In 2019, while exploring his genealogy, Christopher discovered the fascinating explosion of revolutionary activity in the world in the late 18th century. Being a mostly self-educated student of history through his fascination with the rise of Western Civilization, he became convinced that the year of 1791 was the fulcrum that changed the West and the world forever. It was this year that the Haitian Revolution began, which in part marked the beginning of the end to monarchies all around the western world.

Christopher is also an artist who focuses mostly on building his private collection as well as the maintaining the collection of his late mother, artist Patricia Pilie’s, personal collection. He has created the “Crimson Rada” effort to share his creative endeavors with the world through his vision of art, literature, philosophy, and spirituality.