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The arrival of Christopher Columbus during his
third voyage and the discovery of the world's
richest pearl beds, trigger 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 8220ThePearl
Coast8221 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 is 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, proving that
the real savages were the invaders. Peter Von
Perle, an American researcher, and writer was
born in Venezuela where he discovered his passion
for the history of early American natural
saltwater pearl fisheries. After a decade of
research, traveling the world, unearthing
relevant information about the pearl trade in the
sixteenth century and interviewing a myriad of
experts, from gemologists, museum