Mathabahanga Bengal 1637 - Ness, Tom van der
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Famous for building the Taj Mahal, the Shah Jahan who ruled India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, our protagonist Angela's early life was borne while living under the scourge of his vaunted military might. She is raised under the caste system as a Dalit - untouchable - who were treated as slave-labour with constant flogging and starvation being the generational systemic norm. Bearing two children from being raped while still a teen, and pregnant with her third child, she is captured by Dutch slave-raiders in the Mathabahanga Delta in Bengal and sent to the slave-market in Batavia ¿…mehr

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Famous for building the Taj Mahal, the Shah Jahan who ruled India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, our protagonist Angela's early life was borne while living under the scourge of his vaunted military might. She is raised under the caste system as a Dalit - untouchable - who were treated as slave-labour with constant flogging and starvation being the generational systemic norm. Bearing two children from being raped while still a teen, and pregnant with her third child, she is captured by Dutch slave-raiders in the Mathabahanga Delta in Bengal and sent to the slave-market in Batavia ¿ modern day Jakarta. As one of its first handful of slaves, after serving as a house-slave for two years in the east, Angela is shipped to the 'Cape of Good Hope' which was still in its infancy in sixteen-fifty-seven. Angela is one of the Cape's most famous slaves who lived well into her seventies and became extremely wealthy and married a famous white man with whom she bore many children. Her offspring are the progenitors of many modern day South African Afrikaner families including the common name of the Bassons. Her life story has been thoroughly researched and is based on the accurate facts of the time.
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I started my writing career as a financial journalist where, as a stringer, I covered all aspects of the Southern African money markets for London based UPI (United Press International). My next career path was as a copywriter in the advertising industry. For just over twenty years, I was a part of various creative teams and I worked on a number of international brands. Because of my journalistic background, I migrated to become a brand-analyst, and wrote brand-plans for a wide spectrum of market-leading, global trademarks. I co-authored the launch of the Human Rights Campaign covering the first democratic elections for Nelson Mandela's, 'New South Africa.' I personally researched the hugely diverse demographic population and designed the blueprint with a message that had to simultaneously address what is probably one of the widest psychographic audience profiles of any marketing campaign ever launched. The challenge was to target semi-literate hut-dwellers to sophisticated personnel working for multinational giant corporations housed in glittering high-risers ¿ with one campaign. Also, I recently qualified with TEFL 5 certification as an English teacher for higher grades.