![]() Looking back on her life, she tells us that ' Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me. Music - and the drums - have given Zarité the strength to survive and thrive through difficult times. ![]() As a child in 1770s Saint-Domingue - ' which would become the richest colony in the world', generating a third of France's wealth from the labor of slaves - Tété is purchased by Toulouse Valmorain's mistress (much admired free cocotte Violette Boisier), to care for his mentally frail wife, Dona Eugenia on his sugar plantation of Saint Lazare. ![]() In Island Beneath the Sea, Isabel Allende tells the bitter-sweet story of Zarité (known as Tété), the daughter of an African mother and the white sailor who raped her. ![]()
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