History Literature / TheBlackGodsDrums

* SkyPirates: Pirates of the Air have become common and widespread in the Gulf of Mexico and on the adjoining American coast, including the pirate airship "Midnight Robber", controlled by the pirate Augustine.

''The Black God's Drums'' is a 2018 young adult novel written by P. Djèlí Clark.

* {{Tomboy}}: Creeper, the main character, dresses as a boy and doesn't like girlish clothes and has very masculine mannerisms.

* {{Expy}}: the "Drapeto Gas", a reference to the pseudoscientific theory of "Drapetomania" widespread in the confederate States of America in the 19th century

In a {{Steampunk}} alternate history New Orleans, a young girl named Creeper, a poor girl who survives by gimmicks, discovers she is the reincarnation of a Oya, the Yoruba goddess of storms. She discovers that spies of the Confederate States of America have stolen a mysterious secret weapon from Haiti which they intend to use on New Orleans. Creeper, aided by Captain Augustine of the pirate airship "Midnight Robber", sets out to save New Orleans from destruction.

In a {{Steampunk}} alternate history New Orleans, a young girl named Creeper, a poor girl who survives by gimmicks, discovers she is the reincarnation of a Yoruba Goddess named Oya, the Goddess of Storms. She discovers that spies of the Confederates States of America have stolen a mysterious secret weapon from Haiti which they intend to use on New Orleans. Creeper, aided by Captain Augustine of the Pirate-Airship "Midnight Robber", sets out to save New Orleans from destruction.

* {{Magitek}}: African magic, Haitian magic, Vodoun and African witchcraft coexist with advanced steampunk technologies.
* MultinationalTeam: The crew of the Midnight Robber, a multiracial and multi-ethnic crew, composed of Native Americans, Indians, Mongols and East Asians.

* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Zeppelin-like airships are widely distributed and used in New Orleans Free City and the Republic of Haiti, where airships have become the major and main means of transport and are an integral means of the "Flying Military Fleets".

* AlternateHistoryWank: The Republic of Haiti was founded in 1884 and becomes a scientific-technological power, equipped with advanced {{steampunk}} technologies and fleets of Airships, and has become the largest power in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. Haiti leads the Free Islands, an alliance of Caribbean states. The city-state of New Orleans becomes part of the orbit of the Haitian Republic following a successful slave revolt in 1864.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Creeper's mother was a prostitute and Creeper spent her childhood living between the brothel where her mother worked and scraping out a life based on theft and robbery, surviving as a Ladra and a pickpocket.

* {{Mythpunk}}: The African Gods of Mythology and the Yoruba Pantheon, together with the Vodoun folklore of New Orleans and Haitian, Cuban and Afro-Carribean mythology, in an steampunk New Orleans.

** The Haiti Slavery Revolt of 1794 was successful and defeated the French, Haiti gained independence from France as early as 1794 and the Haitian Revolution spread to the Caribbean islands, leading to a large-scale insurgency of black slaves in the Caribbean and to the founding of the Free Isles, an alliance of independent Caribbean states led by the Afro-Caribbean. The Haitian rebels defeated the French army in 1794 through a mysterious secret weapon created by a Haitian scientist named Duconge.

** In 1865, New Orleans became an independent city-state, following a black slave rebellion in 1864 which drove the Confederate army from New Orleans. The Free City of New Orleans became a neutral territory, putting themselves under the military protection of France, England and Haiti, which protect the city-state of New Orleans from the military threat of the Confederate States of America, New Orleans and became a free and safe area for black slaves on the run from the plantations of the Confederate States of America.

In a Steampunk alt-history New Orleans, a young girl named Creeper, a poor girl who survives by gimmicks, discovers she is the reincarnation of a Yoruba Goddess named Oya, the Goddess of Storms. She discovers that spies of the Confederates States of America have stolen a mysterious secret weapon from Haiti which they intend to use on New Orleans. Creeper, aided by Captain Augustine of the Pirate-Airship "Midnight Robber", sets out to save New Orleans from destruction.

%%* ActionGirl: Our protagonist, Jacqueline AKA Creeper.

* ZeppelinsfromAnotherWorld: Zeppelin-like airships are widely distributed and used in New Orleans Free City and the Republic of Haiti, where airships have become the major and main means of transport and are an integral means of the "Flying Military Fleets".

* ActionGirl: Our protagonist, Jacqueline AKA Creeper.
* AllMythsAreTrue: the Yoruba or "Orixha" deities really exist and are reincarnated in the physical body of ordinary mortal human beings.
* AlternateHistory: The Haiti Slavery Revolt of 1794 was successful and defeated the French, Haiti gained independence from France as early as 1794 and the Haitian Revolution spread to the Caribbean islands, leading to a large-scale insurgency of black slaves in the Caribbean and at the founding of the Free Isles, an alliance of independent Caribbean states led by the Afro-Caribbean. The Haitian rebels defeated the French army in 1794 through a mysterious secret weapon created by a Haitian scientist named Duconge.

** In 1865, New Orleans became an independent city-state, following a black slave rebellion in 1864 which drove the Confederate army from New Orleans. The "Free City of New Orleans" became a neutral territory, putting themselves under the military protection of France, England and Haiti, which protect the city-state of New Orleans from the military threat of the Confederate States of America, New Orleans and become a free and safe area for black slaves on the run from the plantations of the Confederate States of America.
* AlternateHistoryWank: The Republic of Haiti was founded in 1884 and becomes a scientific-technological power, equipped with advanced {{steampunk}} technologies, fleets of Airships, and has become the largest power in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. Haiti leads the "Free Islands", an alliance of Caribbean states. The city-state of New Orleans becomes part of the orbit of the Haitian Republic following a successful slave revolt in 1864.
* CultureChopSuey: the City-State of New Orleans is a melting pot of peoples, races and ethnic groups, a fusion of Afro-American, Cajun, Caribbean, Irish and American culture.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Creeper's mother was a prostitute and Creeper spent her childhood living between the brothel where her mother worked and a scraping out a life based on theft and robbery, surviving as a Ladra and a pickpocket.

* SecretWeapon: A mysterious Super Weapon, created in 1794 by a Haitian scientist named Duconge, which allows the Haitian rebels to defeat the French army and alter the climate of the Gulf of Mexico.

* {{Magitek}}: the coexistence of African magic, Haitian magic, Vodoun and African witchcraft together with advanced Steampunk technologies.
* MultinationalTeam: the crew of the "Midnight Robber", a multiracial and multi-ethnic crew, composed of Native Americans, Indians, Mongols and East Asians
* {{Mythpunk}}: the African Gods of Mythology and the Yoruba Pantheon, together with the Vodoun folklore of New Orleans and Haitian, Cuban and Afro-Caraibian mythology, in an Steampunk New Orleans
* {{Reincarnation}}: Creeper discovers she is the reincarnation of the goddess Oya, the Yoruba Goddess of storms.
* SteamPunk: The City-State of New Orleans relies on advanced and advanced "Steampunk" technologies and on Steam machines. New Orleans has a powerful industrial center, patrolled by Airships and "Zeppelin" balloons, and has become a great "Airship-Port" in the Gulf of Mexico.
* SkyPirates: the Pirates of the Air have become common and widespread in the Gulf of Mexico and on the adjoining American coast, including the Pirate Airship "Midnight Robber", controlled by the pirate Augustine.

* ZeppelinsfromAnotherWorld: Zeppelin-like airships are widely distributed and used in New Orleans Free City and the Republic of Haiti, where the Airships have become the major and main means of transport and are an integral means of the "Flying Military Fleets".

In a Steampunk alt-history New Orleans, a young girl named Creeper, a poor girl who survives by gimmicks, discovers she is the reincarnation of a Yoruba Goddess, named Oya, the Goddess of storms and discovers that spies of the states Confederates of America, they have stolen and stolen from Haiti a mysterious secret weapon, which the confederate states of America, want to use on New Orleans, so, Creeper, aided by Augustine, a Pirate Woman at the head of a named Pirate-Airship " Midnight Creeper "leaves to save New Orleans from destruction ...

* ActionGirl: The Main Protagonist, Jacqueline AKA Creeper
* AllMythsAreTrue: the Yoruba or "Orixha" deities really exist and are real and live hidden with human beings, but reincarnated in the physical body of ordinary mortal human beings ...
* AlternateHistory: the Haiti Slavery Revolt of 1794 was successful and defeated the French, Haiti gained independence from France as early as 1794 and the Haitian Revolution spread to the Caribbean islands, leading to a large-scale insurgency of black slaves in the Caribbean and at the founding of the Free Isles, an alliance of independent Caribbean states led by the Afro-Caribbean, the Haitian rebels defeated the French army in 1794 through a mysterious secret weapon created by a Haitian scientist named Duconge
** the American Civil War never ended and is still in progress in 1884, with the United States of America, split and divided between the Union and the Confederation, in a continuous and constant war that has worn both sides apart. .
** in 1865, New Orleans became an independent city-state, after a black slave rebellion in New Orleans in 1864, which drove the Confederate army from New Orleans, founding the "Free City of New Orleans", becoming a neutral territory, putting themselves under the military protection of France, England and Haiti, which protect the city-state of New Orleans from the military threat of the confederate states of America, New Orleans and become a free and safe area for black slaves on the run from the plantations of the Confederate States of America ...
* AlternateHistoryWank: the Republic of Haiti in 1884 and here it becomes a scientific-technological power, equipped with advanced Steampunk technologies, with fleets of Airships, which has become the largest power in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico and has come to the head of the "Free Islands", an alliance of Caribbean states, all allies of the Haitian Republic and which brought the city-state of New Orleans into the orbit of the Haitian Republic, Haiti in 1884 and a superpower in the Caribbean, Antilles and Gulf of Mexico basin ...
* CultureChopSuey: the City-State of New Orleans and a melting pot of peoples, races and ethnic groups, a "Babel" of Peoples, to be precise a fusion of Afro-American, Cajun, Caribbean, Irish and American-American culture
* DarkAndTroubledPast: the Mother of Creeper was a prostitute and Creeper spent her childhood living between the brothel where her mother worked and a life based on theft and robbery, surviving as a Ladra and a pickpocket, spending a poor life and disadvantaged

* SecretWeapon: a mysterious Super-Secret Weapon, created in 1794 by a Haitian scientist named Duconge, which allows the Haitian rebels to defeat the French army and alter the climate of the Gulf of Mexico
** the "Drum of the Black God", a mysterious super-weapon, created by a Haitian scientist, but mysteriously disappeared into thin air
* {{Magitek}}: the coexistence of African magic, Haitian magic, Vodoun and African witchcraft together with advanced Steampunk technologies

* {{Reincarnation}}: Creeper discovers he is the reincarnation of the goddess Oya, of the Yoruba Goddess of storms
* SteamPunk: the City-State of New Orleans based on advanced and advanced "Steampunk" technologies and on Steam machines New Orleans has a large and powerful industrial center and is patrolled by the Sky from Airships and "Zeppelin" balloon, becoming a great "Airship-Port" in the Gulf of Mexico ...
* SkyPirates: the Pirates of the Air have become common and widespread in the Gulf of Mexico and on the American coast of the Gulf of Mexico, including the Pirate Airship "Midnight Robber", controlled by the pirate of the Air, named Augustine
* {{Tomboy}}: Creeper, the main character, dresses as a boy and doesn't like girlish clothes and has very masculine ways of doing
* ZeppelinsfromAnotherWorld: Zeppelin-like airships are widely distributed and used in New Orleans Free City and the Republic of Haiti, where the Airships have become the major and main means of transport and are an integral means of the "Flying Military Fleets" of New Orleans Free City and the Republic of Haiti.

Black God's Drums is a Young Adult novel written by P. Djeli Clark in 2018

in a Steampunk alt-history New Orleans, a young girl named Creeper, a poor girl who survives by gimmicks, discovers she is the reincarnation of a Yoruba Goddess, named Oya, the Goddess of storms and discovers that spies of the states Confederates of America, they have stolen and stolen from Haiti a mysterious secret weapon, which the confederate states of America, want to use on New Orleans, so, Creeper, aided by Augustine, a Pirate Woman at the head of a named Pirate-Airship " Midnight Creeper "leaves to save New Orleans from destruction ...

!!''Black God's Drums'' contains examples of:

* Airships: the Airships are widely distributed and used in New Orleans Free City and the Republic of Haiti, where the Airships have become the major and main means of transport and are an integral means of the "Flying Military Fleets" of New Orleans Free City and the Republic of Haiti

* Expy: the "Drapeto Gas", a reference to the pseudoscientific theory of "Drapetomania" widespread in the confederate States of America in the 19th century

* CultureChopSuey: the City-State of New Orleans and a melting pot of peoples, races and ethnic groups, a "Babel" of Peoples, to be precise a fusion of Afro-American, Cajun, Caribbean, Irish and American-American culture

* Magitek: the coexistence of African magic, Haitian magic, Vodoun and African witchcraft together with advanced Steampunk technologies

* Mythpunk: the African Gods of Mythology and the Yoruba Pantheon, together with the Vodoun folklore of New Orleans and Haitian, Cuban and Afro-Caraibian mythology, in an Steampunk New Orleans

* Incarnation: Creeper discovers he is the reincarnation of the goddess Oya, of the Yoruba Goddess of storms

* Tomboy: Creeper, the main character, dresses as a boy and doesn't like girlish clothes and has very masculine ways of doing

* ZeppelinsfromAnotherWorld: Zeppelin-like airships are widespread in New Orleans ...