Caribbus Dagger Bundelle: The Relentless Sprout

By Orlando N. Gomez

Caribbus Dagger Bundelle:the Relentless Sprout is a powerful novel based on the tale of a family line where the women face limitless difficulties. However,while some of these women are abused and killed other women struggle with courage and manage to persevere, and to circumvent most of their lives advesrsities. Throughout the story, the women are proud of their identity and are never afraid to go after their goals.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 16, 2007
• ISBN: 9781467088558

Orlando N. Gomez

Orlando Gómez nació en San Pedro de Macorís, República Dominicana; el pueblo de grandes escritores, poetas y peloteros. Fue ahí donde su pasión por la ley y la justicia lo comprometió a querer estar siempre del lado de la víctima y no del lado del victimario. Esta pasión lo siguió hasta los Estados Unidos, donde tuvo la oportunidad de completar su licenciatura en criminología en unas de las más reconocidas universidades norte americanas en el área de justicia criminal: “John Jay Collage of Criminal Justice”. Hoy en día Orlando trabaja para el gobierno de la ciudad de Nueva York, aunque pasa parte de su tiempo libre escribiendo y ampliando sus habilidades intelectuales. Este es el sexto libro que él ha podido completar con el poco tiempo que tiene disponible.

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This book is a work of fiction. People, places, events, and situations are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or historical events, is purely coincidental.

© 2008 Orlando N. Gomez. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

First published by AuthorHouse 4/9/2008

ISBN: 978-1-4259-7639-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4670-8855-8 (ebk)

Contents

Introduction

1 Corinne Bundelle/Family Roots

2 Factory of Behavior

3. Mamatua

4. Mamatua, Alex / Dagger Family

5. Bizarre Birth / Fatal End

6. Knowledge that Kills

7. Estelle and Ralph: Young Hope

8. Estelle and Ralph’s Marriage

9. Caribbus / Relentless Sprout

10. Caribbus the Lawyer

11. Corie is Dating the Sprout

12. Estelle and Caribbus: The New Owners

13. Caribbus the Mother

14. Caribbus Fights Back

15. Caribbus the Philanthropist

This novel has been dedicated to

all the women found on this earth,

especially my mother, my wife, my daughters,

my sisters, my aunts, and my friends.

I give special thanks to my daughters,

who helped me proofread some of my writing,

and my friend Justin Clarke as well.

Introduction

There is a general belief which says that history began in 4000-1000 BC, creating a general consensus that sustains this, beginning with written information. As a result and through generations, other beliefs explaining the location where this writing has been supposedly created have been sustained by many people until this present time. Moreover, as this belief got its affirmation for centuries, the fundamental part of such affirmation was based upon the notion that the first chapter of this writing was opened in Mesopotamia, known to be the fertile land of the region where the type of trade used among people of neighboring countries exacerbated the genesis of the new type of trade that engendered the commerce which is in place in our contemporaneous era. As a result and through time, such belief has been sprayed all over the planet until our days. The Mesopotamia in question is the land found between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. This land was the reason for many wars because having control over this region was the equivalent of having control over the oil found in the Persian Gulf in our days. This region was rich with water, and its soil was good for agriculture. Nevertheless, new generations and new technologies forced the mutation of such importance from agriculture to oil industries. Today, this region is rich in oil for the world. This was the location from where the trade routes prevalent in that period of time first moved to the rest of the world, engendering the road where greediness and gluttony had an impetuous start. As a result, neighboring countries adopted the knowledge found in such chapters and used it for their own historical registration and social predicaments. From the Sumerian to the Phoenician, having the Babylonian as one of its stronger sustainers, passing through the Nile, and going through Egypt, Africa, Ethiopia, and India, this knowledge had its major impact before it disseminated all over the world, creating a factory of behavior producing a cycle of crime.

During the seventeen hundreds, Ethiopia’s culture had a great influence over its neighboring countries: Somalia to the east, Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south. These were the countries that first adopted Ethiopia’s historical acquisition, coming from Mesopotamia. These were African countries that helped Ethiopia to develop one of the most heterogeneous African societies of the time. Egypt, as part of Africa as well as part of Arab culture, and Greece, as part of Europe, had also made their cultural contributions to Ethiopia. However, this cultural revolution had its major impact after Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1880. This human dynamic made Ethiopia one of the African nations to have one of the most mixed cultures. This was a period in which many strong European countries were trafficking black slaves from Africa to America. Indeed, slave trade to America had it origin after 1492, when Christopher Columbus arrived and settled on Quisquella or Quisqueya Island, the island that he then named Hispaniola Island. After the Spaniards had settled in this island, finding gold, instead of spices as they were looking for during their first trip, the manpower available to find this gold was the indigenous or native people. However, the overwork inflicted upon these aborigines accelerated their physical disappearance, to the point that the Spaniards needed to find another alternative. Anybody can make the argument that the excessive work these native people were submitted to by these new settlers could be seen as a clear manifestation of the gluttony and ambition of these new settlers. As a result, the invaders had the necessity to replace the aborigine work force in order for them to continue searching for the gold needed to be sent to Europe. This was after the church representative in the island found the treatment given to the indigenous inhumane. As a result, he recommended that indigenous workers were replaced with black slaves from Africa. Therefore, slave hunters were sent to Africa in order to find the black slaves needed to replace the aborigines. After the first group of black slaves arrived at Quisqueya Island and started to work to mine gold, the finding was that black slaves were more profitable than aborigines because of the black slaves’ endurance and work productivity. As a result, black slaves’ trade became the time’s most profitable business. Since then, black people were introduced into this hemisphere as a global underclass where the degree of depersonalization has such a severity that a small but powerful segment of world society still refuses to see black people as part of the human race. Black slaves were placed in this hemisphere against their will. They were forced to change their names, beliefs, family values, cultural values, and self-identity. The mutation has such a severity that all the studies and scientific experiments already done are not enough to help blacks and their descendants of this Western hemisphere recoup at least half of their loss. This by itself becomes one of the different fuels that could put in motion a factory of behavior with the capacity to produce a cycle of crime. Having said that I will identify myself as a young writer named Orlando N. Gomez who is inviting you to navigate with me through my imagination with the help of a force that will push us out from non-fiction to fiction. I will create the different places where the characters settled, the characters’ names, and the characters’ actions in order to embody the concept of my perception. In this material, I will introduce to you a novel based on the life of a woman who, at the time she tried to find some of her genealogical tree, found herself in the middle of a factory of behaviors that creates a cycle of crime.

The title of my novel is Caribbus Dagger Bundelle: The Relentless Sprout. It follows the genealogy of the Bundelle family from Africa to America. In this novel, the readers can see the cycles of violence and misfortune that befall the family, but there is also hope in the unyielding spirit of the Bundelles.

When an African girl is orphaned because of her tribe’s misfortunes as a result of the slave hunting for the slave trade, she renames herself Bundelle because she likes the name. Generations later, her progeny sets off for America, looking for a new life and her family roots. Matua gave birth to Mamatua, who lived with foster parents; she was neither white nor black. She gets involved with a man named Alex, whose father is not appreciative of her blackness; when she dies, her child is given to a convent and named Estelle. Estelle marries Ralph Dagger, who is the son of Mamatua and Alex’s former neighbors. The pair has a baby girl, which they name Caribbus Dagger. Caribbus has the trademark blue eyes of the Bundelle girls, but more than that, she has their fiery determination. When Estelle is raped, Ralph murders the rapist and his assistant and goes to jail. Caribbus grows up to be an intelligent, beautiful girl who not only gets several degrees and doctorates but also is a successful company owner. Estelle has been worried because of Caribbus’ aggression against the male sex and is relieved when Caribbus gets together with a man named Corie and gives birth to the next generation of the Bundelles: twins Lucinda and Nicanor

Indeed, Caribbus Dagger Bundelle: the Relentless Sprout is a tale of a family line that faces limitless difficulties but manages to persevere. My intention as a son of a woman who raised me as a single mother with the help of my grandparents is to engage women, all women, to be proud of their identity and never to be afraid to go after their goals.

A Bundelle girl could be you, your friend, or a friend of your friend. This tale will continue with the Sprouts of the Sprout: Lucinda and Nicanor. Let’s see what happens to Nicanor Maxprice Dagger Bundelle.

ONE

Corinne Bundelle/Family Roots

In a village found on the border between Ethiopia and Sudan and where matriarchy was the foundation of the social organization lived the Bundelle family during a period where European slave hunters were hunting black people to be sent to America as slaves. This practice became one of the time’s most profitable businesses. Corinne Bundelle was a black woman who never knew her biological parents. Her biological parents were killed during a war between tribes. As a result, Corinne became an orphan at three years of age. Corinne grew up without knowing her last name; therefore, after Corinne became an adult, she created her own last name, choosing Bundelle as her last name because she liked the way it sounded. Moreover, after finding the man she wanted to marry, she procreated three children with this man. As