Andrea Stuart is the author of The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon's Josephine, which has been translated into three languages and won the Enid McLeod Literary Prize.
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In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he har... SEE MORE