BLOOD FOR PEARLS
A riveting historical fiction that uncovers hidden truths of early American pearl fisheries, shedding light on Columbus's ties to ecological destruction and the enslavement of the South Caribbean-a poignant reminder of the legacy we must acknowledge.
Prepare to be transported to a world where pearls symbolize survival, resilience, and the enduring human spirit. Blood for Pearls is a spellbinding journey through history's most precious bloodshed, where beauty and brutality converge in the name of wealth, and where the true savages were not those who perished but those who invaded.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Peter Von Perle is an American researcher and writer who was born and raised in Venezuela, where he developed a lifelong passion for saltwater pearls and the history that accompanies them.
Peter found his way into the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS© when he was involved with the largest concentration of pearls, and his subsequent trailer and screenplay BLOOD FOR PEARLS won him numerous awards at Film Festivals around the world.
Since 2011, Peter has been traveling the world, interviewing a myriad of experts, and unearthing new and important facts surrounding this controversial period of world history.
BLOOD FOR PEARLS
1498: The arrival of Christopher Columbus during his third voyage and the discovery of the world's richest pearl beds, triggered events that altered the course of history. Cubagua Island in the Southern Caribbean is the epicentre of those historical events, where inhuman acts create an unbreakable bond between Native American Charaima and African Dembe, both enslaved by the greedy and murderous European invaders and the sadistic pearl-fishing boat Captain Pedro, intertwining their lives, meanwhile hiding a cache of pearls in a buried clay-jar, in hopes to free their people.
These islands were known as "The Pearl Coast”, where an estimated two hundred billion oysters were culled, resulting in the export of about twelve tons of pearls to Spain, exceeding all other exports combined and depleting the oyster-beds forever. Within less than two decades the entire Native population was wiped out and the first African enslaved people in America were pearl divers on Cubagua Island. Hundreds of thousands of humans were massacred for the benefit of the European monarchies.
