Skysails

books i read in 2016:

persuasion, by jane austen (+ review)

Earlier this year, marine archaeologists recovered medical equipment from the Queen Anne’s Revenge, flagship of the pirate Blackbeard, which lies in shallow water on a sandbar at the Topsail Inlet in North Carolina.  The artifacts, combined with historical records, show that the infamous buccaneer had to keep his crew in fighting shape.  

POLDARK REWATCH MEME: 1/8 episodes

Carpenter Aboard La Tempete: Age 27-34, Race: (French-Quadroon), PB Suggested: Jesse Williams, Contact: Livie A member of the free people of color, he is a carpenter’s son. He is also a quardoon, who’s father was the hired to do work on his employer hearing of his workman’s reputation in the spirit of good will and Christian charity. Needless to say the father regrets what was done, though he loves his son as nothing else. The boy stayed with his mother until the age of 9 when it was arranged he would stay with his father. Grandfather claimed it was because he needed an education, and a position within the guild was a good thing to have. Besides, he wasn’t paying for his daughter’s bastard. It was one thing for him to conceive one, but her? It was an inequality he felt going from the natural born son of a plantation to a man of the working class. But it was to inequality he was born with flesh like his father. While his grandfather still provides some support to his efforts to rise from afar? It is on his father’s recommendation that he takes a position as the Carpenter of the new privateer vessel for Saint Domingue, given he has a good record to back him as a ship’s carpenter. While his parents never ended up together, his life with his father was one of good work. He has that reputation of his father’s to uphold, and the chance to prove himself. Brown skin or not, his hands are excellent. 

Beatrix Garnier, Druggist/Apprentice to Yasmeen, mid-30s, widowed, PB: Lotte Verbeek

Beatrix Garnier is Dutch and born in the Netherlands. Her background in that regard is yours to decide. However, it should suit with the following: Beatrix is a skilled and talented pharmacy/druggist and was formerly married to a Frenchman, Pierre-Joseph, that was a surgeon. Between both of them they were a talented pair. They never had any children(at least not that lived to maturity/adulthood) so you’re free to decide what happened there. They were both also Girondists. Her husband died when they took part in the Storming of the Bastille on July 14th, 1789 and she was lucky to escape with her life. Afterward, unable to deal with her grief, she came to Saint-Domingue to live with Yasmeen Moreau. Being close friends of Yasmeen, and her former husband, they taught Yasmeen a good deal of medical knowledge. Beatrix and Yasmeen have been close friends since first meeting, almost like sisters, with a lot in common. However, since coming to Moreau House, Beatrix has not been acting herself due to grief; mostly staying around the house and assisting there where needed if not hidden away in her room. Only recently has she started to act herself again. Occasionally assists Yasmeen with patients; also helping Yasmeen in the training/teaching of her youngest daughter.

—- — — Janvier, 25-28, governess, unmarried; no family, PB: Carey Mulligan Mademoiselle Janvier was born in France to a father who was a Professor of Theology and Literature at the Université de Poitiers and a mother who was the youngest daughter of an English noble family that lost her nobility, and any title, for marrying below herself though she did not care. They made a comfortable life for themselves in Poitiers, but they moved to New Orleans when Janvier was around 11-years-old. While her brothers had futures plotted out that they seemed content with, Mademoiselle Janvier wanted more than just to marry someone. She wanted to travel, to learn, to teach and so her parents obliged in teaching her more than some parents taught their daughters which eventually lead to her helping teach her father’s pupils as he was a school teacher. Eventually she’d slowly take on her own students as well with her father supervising. She taught only the children of one family in England before her father wrote to her speaking of an old family acquaintance of her mother’s that was in need of a Governess for his children, recommended as well by an acquaintance she knew(Charlotte Moreau Heusé) who was the Baron’s Aunt, and so she found herself in early March arriving in Port de Paix, Hispaniola and taking a room at Maison des Fleurs Peintes: the home of the Baron de Moreau to become governess to his three children, the twin girls Marie-Jeanne and Margaret and the young son Charles. Everything else for Janvier is up to you. Why they moved, if her father does anything beyond teach, what her mother does/if she does anything, etc. She has been mentioned in several threads, please ask me for the links, but otherwise not much has been done with her. She will however have much in the way of possible connections for plotting. It is important to note that as a governess she is not considered a servant.