Those the Sun Has Loved Author:Rose Jourdain The Claviers were not just any black family. They were a proud, freeborn dynasty founded by a onetime pirate from far-off Surinam who came to New Bedford as a young man with a daring mission and stayed to build a shipping fleet that carried food and guns to George Washington's troops. It is a legacy of courage and accomplishment that Jacques... more » Clavier passes on to his children and in every generation it is their destiny to do battle in the great struggles of American history. Jacques's son becomes an abolitionist crusader; his grandsons fight with a black division in the Civil War.
But there is none so bold or so brazen as beautiful auburn-haired Isabella -- Isabella who chooses to live rich and to marry white. Her progeny turns away from the Claviers...until one day, in the twentieth century, there appears a Clavier with the greatest ambition of all: he wants to become the nation's first black President!
A story of triumph and achievement, the Clavier saga is also a book about fierce and lasting family loyalties -- a big book that tells of the striving of black leader from New Bedford to Charleston to Chicago to defy the odds and win a place of honor in a land where race is no bar to success -- unless it happens to be black.« less