A Woman Named Solitude Author:Andre Schwarz-Bart Bayangumay, a child of West Africa learning the ways of her Diola culture, content in her simple life and the beauty of her people. When the village is ransacked, she is taken along with the survivors aboard a slave ship bound for the New World. Bayangumay arrives to give birth to a mulatto child conceived aboard the ship. That child is Solitude... more ». Her life of enslavement and re bellion in the islands is the story of one of the most beautiful heroines of the Black world. Perhaps the purest heroine in man's history.« less