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clarentineI was working my way through the existing pages of the pirates novel, and came across this passage, which so perfectly sums up one of the undercurrents in this story:
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Beatty sniffed. Rough, callused fingers seized Josh's right hand and turned it this way and that in the light. Beatty pursed his lips in critical comment. "I suppose you read."
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Beatty, by the way, is the captain of a small privateering vessel who's rescued Josh, my protag, from captivity by the Spanish, and they're discussing how Josh is going to pay his way to Charleston.
As Charleston and its economy plays a significant role in the background of this story, last night's (and today's) research included exploration of plantation economies in and around Carolina's Low Country in the early 1700s. (Primary cash crops: rice, indigo, tobacco, beef.) I got to read a cookbook on Low Country cuisine; that was fun as well as educational. Just because I don't like duck doesn't mean others won't eat it.
Oh, and I'm reading about the political climate in England in the several years preceding the date of this story, because the main plot is anchored on it. (The poor reference librarian, in trying to figure out where to start looking for books on my query as to important events around 1720, asked me if I knew when the English civil war was...yeah, that was the look on my face, too. *g* I felt better when it turned out she didn't know who Calico Jack Rackam was.)
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Beatty sniffed. Rough, callused fingers seized Josh's right hand and turned it this way and that in the light. Beatty pursed his lips in critical comment. "I suppose you read."
___
Beatty, by the way, is the captain of a small privateering vessel who's rescued Josh, my protag, from captivity by the Spanish, and they're discussing how Josh is going to pay his way to Charleston.
As Charleston and its economy plays a significant role in the background of this story, last night's (and today's) research included exploration of plantation economies in and around Carolina's Low Country in the early 1700s. (Primary cash crops: rice, indigo, tobacco, beef.) I got to read a cookbook on Low Country cuisine; that was fun as well as educational. Just because I don't like duck doesn't mean others won't eat it.
Oh, and I'm reading about the political climate in England in the several years preceding the date of this story, because the main plot is anchored on it. (The poor reference librarian, in trying to figure out where to start looking for books on my query as to important events around 1720, asked me if I knew when the English civil war was...yeah, that was the look on my face, too. *g* I felt better when it turned out she didn't know who Calico Jack Rackam was.)
