Brighton Publishing releases “Seasoned Rum” by novelist Daniel Taylor

Laced with passionate, profound, and moving events, accompanied by a cast of fascinating characters, author Daniel Mabrey Taylor delivers a remarkable account of the slave trade, and placage in early 19th century New Orleans.
 
 
Seasoned Rum
Seasoned Rum
MESA, Ariz. - Feb. 20, 2015 - PRLog -- MESA (AZ)—Brighton Publishing LLC proudly announces the eBook release of Seasoned Rum:“The Mistaken Slave Girl,” by novelist Daniel Mabrey Taylor. Written with a sensitive understanding of both human nature and historic events, the story is based on the early 19th century New Orleans slave trade.

The eBook is currently available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other leading eBook retailers. Print release is slated for late-summer 2015, and will be distributed through Ingram, the world’s largest book wholesaler. The print version will also be available worldwide through the Xerox Espresso Book Machine Network.

Synopsis: Bertrand d’Ogeron, a Dutch merchant, felt confident his quadroon grand daughters, Scholastique Bigonesse and her sister Beauchance, would know a better life in Orleans territories of New France. Bertrand paid for their passage to New Orleans as free persons of color in 1818, under an outdated but effective “Placage” system. “Placage” was an important tool used by the French and Spanish to better legitimize girls of color or young "roon" women into freedom by selling them into servitude for a period of time before they could become free.

But especially caught in the tides of change during this period were the plantation owners and the slaves who serviced their needs. In New Orleans, mere blocks separate free blacks from their brothers and sisters, who toil under the abusive twists of power. With changing laws against slavery and the poor treatment of slaves, a black market of underground slave trading exploded among the elite, and Scholastique Bigonesse was caught in the middle.

Raised educated and free women of color, young Scholastique and her sister inherit a secret supply of rum, hidden by their powerful grandfather. But his death brings a riddle by way of a poem, and critical papers proving their legal statuses are missing.

Scholastique’s world flips upside down when she is kidnapped by a nefarious man who seeks to abuse her body and steal a fortune she doesn’t even know she has, buried at the bottom of the rum barrels. The adventures of Scholastique as she battles for her life and freedom, after being mistaken for a slave, involve her in a deeper understanding of the world, her true roots, and the volatility of the times. She seeks to recover her inheritance, become a woman of means, and stand up for her rights as a human being.

“In a tale of both exploitation and greed, author Daniel Taylor takes the reader on a journey into the New Orleans slave trade in a sensitive, yet compelling masterpiece of fiction,” said Kathie McGuire, director of Brighton Publishing LLC. “Seasoned Rum is a deeply moving work, so passionately engaging, it is impossible to put down.”

Author Daniel Taylor was born in New Orleans, but finds himself spending much of his time working in the Washington, D.C. area. This is Mr. Taylor’s second published work. His first work, Grey Blue Water was published in 2013. Currently, Mr. Taylor calls Manassas, Virginia his home.

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Katherine McGuire
***@brightonpublishing.com
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