Signares'. The Women of Gore'e Island

📖 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.