Jim Sweeney is an aspiring writer of historical fiction. He has been researching and writing about the history of St Vincent Island’s Black

Carib people for over two decades. They were the last indigenous Caribbean people to resist European imperialism.

Jim has a series of nine novels recounting their ethnogenesis as a mixture of escaped slaves and Carib Indians. Here is the Black Carib series, not yet in publication.

Kalinago The story of the migration of the Kalinago people (Caribs) leaving Arawak domination and conquering St. Vincent Island, capturing Arawak women, and establishing a new society.  Summary & Pictures

The Lucayans Two young lovers from Grand Bahama Island, confront Spanish slavers, are captured, and must deal with life among the Spanish. Ponce de Leon and other historical figures are included in this tale. The lovers eventually escape slavery and contribute to the Carib gene pool. Summary & pictures

The Horseman A cavalry officer for the Moroccan occupation of the Songhai Empire crosses the Sahara to Marrakesh. He is tasked with taking the sultan’s horses by ship to trade for African slaves. His ship is taken by a Dutch vessel, and he ends up as a slave in Dutch Guiana. He wins freedom after his ship is wrecked. He joins the Caribs on St. Vincent. Summary & Pictures

The Blacksmith An Ibibio blacksmith leads a failed defense of his town on Nigeria’s Cross River. He is captured and taken on a slave ship to the Caribbean. He leads a successful shipboard revolt during a storm, but the ship wrecks on a small island. Caribs from St. Vincent rescue the Africans and settle them among the island’s villages. The blacksmith becomes a useful member of his Carib community, winning the respect of the chief and marrying two of his daughters. Tensions between Africans and Caribs lead to difficulties for the blacksmith and his family. Summary & Pictures

The Mercenary A starving Bantu herd boy is sold by his stepmother to a Swahili slave trader for a bag of meal. He is traded to an Angolan family where he thrives, having sex play with the family’s daughter. He is sold to the trader when the girl reaches puberty, then captured by cannibalistic land pirates to be trained as a child soldier. He does well and acquires two concubines, losing both. He fights for Queen Nzinga, Africa’s greatest warrior queen, against the Portuguese, helps the Dutch defend Luanda, is drafted by the victorious Portuguese, is taken to Brazil to fight the Dutch, and becomes a slave catcher. He is wounded, and when discovered he flees the length of Brazil, eventually joining the Caribs on St. Vincent with a Tupi wife. Summary & Pictures

The Pequot, the Papist, the Mustee, and the Fisherman. A multigenerational story. It traces the capture and enslavement of a Pequot Indian boy during the Mystic Massacre and the transport and sale of an Irish Catholic girl to Barbados. They become a couple and have a mixed-race daughter. They suffer in a failed slave revolt. Their daughter becomes a servant on an English sugar plantation and meets an African slave from the islands off of Guinea-Bissau. They become embroiled in another failed slave plot and flee to St. Vincent and the Caribs. Summary & Pictures

The Guale, the Huguenot, the Metis, the Warrior, and the Pirate A multigenerational story of the capture of a Guale mission Indian from the Spanish mission off the coast of Georgia. She is sent to the Caribbean as a slave but is captured by French pirates. She is taken to Martinique where she escapes but is made a slave to a French tobacco planter. She falls in love with a Huguenot indentured servant and discovers she is pregnant after he leaves. Her daughter later joins her master’s son and his wife to settle among the Caribs on St. Vincent Island, where she meets a Black Carib warrior. Her master conspires with the French to conquer Black Carib territory and enslave the Black Carib people. The attack fails and the girl’s warrior friend helps save her from vengeful warriors. A Fante fisherman hires on as crew for a French slave vessel that is captured by Black Beard. He joins the pirate crew, along with many of the slaves. He is wounded and settles among the Caribs, joining in the fight against the French attack. Summary & Pictures

Chatoyer: Freedom’s War Chief   Recounts the exploits of St. Vincent and the Grenadines National Hero, Joseph Chatoyer, who led the resistance to European imperialism in the late 18^th century, through diplomacy and three wars.

The French Lieutenant and the Caribs focuses on the experiences of an eighteen-year-old gunnery officer sent to St. Vincent to support the Black

Caribs in their fight against the British during the French Revolution. He falls in love with a Carib chief’s daughter and witnesses the final defeat and exile of the Black Caribs. Summary & Pictures