![]() When the enslaved people rose up, Toya, ever the warrior, was at the forefront of the rebellion that changed the course of history. Among the motherless children she helped raise was a man who would become the revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines. Betrayed by an enemy, kidnapped, and sold into slavery, Toya wound up in the French colony of Saint Domingue, where she became a force to be reckoned with on its sugar plantations: a healer and an authority figure among the enslaved. Gran Toya: Born in West Africa, Abdaraya Toya was one of the legendary minos-women called "Dahomeyan Amazons" by the Europeans-who were specially chosen female warriors consecrated to the King of Dahomey. ![]() ![]() Acclaimed author of Island Queen Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion that drove out the French and freed the enslaved people of Haiti. ![]()
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In the early 1950s, he also wrote satirical stories, criticizing social and political anomalies and personalities from the country's political life of the time, for which he was considered a dissident and "heretic", and had to explain himself to the party hierarchy. ![]() However, quality of his writings brought him inclusion into primary school curriculum, which meant that some of his stories found its way in to the text-books and some novels became compulsory reading. This allowed him to live solely from his writings, which was rare for the novelists in Yugoslavia at the time. He wrote poetry, short stories and novels, and became famous for his stories for children and young adults, often set during World War II in revolutionary Yugoslavia, written with characteristic Ćopić's humor in the form of ridicule, satire and irony.Īs a professional writer, Ćopić was very popular and was able to sell large number of copies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hašani, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-HungaryĪlley of Distinguished Citizens, Belgrade New Cemeteryīranko Ćopić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Бранко Ћопић, pronounced 1 January 1915 – 26 March 1984) was a Serbian, Bosnian and Yugoslavian writer. ![]() ![]() Considering Isabella’s ways to be licentious and a disgrace upon the family, he permitted her increasingly enraged husband to murder her in a remote Medici villa. Her permissive lifestyle, however, came to an end upon the death of her father, who was succeeded by her disapproving older brother Francesco. 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