marie-joseph de l'enfant jesus. she is an ursuline. she was born in the english colonies with a different name. wheelwright. we will talk about how she was captured, adopted and "redeemed" by the french. she became an important figure in the ursuline order. the third is a man named charles evenot. he is a mayor, and he was born a french territory. i'm sorry -- he was of both french and african descent. and he represents some of the larger themes we have talked about there. negotiations of french and african power. the negotiation of commerce and power. the fourth person we do not have a name. the executioner on the island of martinique. he had to do some pretty grim things. we like to talk about grim things in this class, so i guess we will and tenure that tradition -- continue that tradition. if we're going to talk about the causes of the war, we can step back and give two general causes and some particular causes. first, the general causes. the largest general cause is the integration of the atlantic world in the 18th century. what i

the second person we're going to talk about is esther wheelw right, also known as marie-joseph de l'enfant jesus wright was born in maine. in 1703, she was taken captive by a group of indians who are allies of the french. they adopted her into their family and they eventually would allow the french governor to pay them a price and reclaim her. he adopted her. she lived for several years in the early 1700s in the home of the french governor. eventually, they decided to put her in the convent, and she is able then to learn french. she becomes catholic. and she becomes a very politics andn the the religious agendas of the ursuline order. as we talked about before, this includes a lot of social and political involvement. a lot of the efforts to educate. a lot of the efforts to take care of the poor and the indigent. a lot of efforts to take care of social services -- broadly speaking. they were performed by these nuns and they operated largely independently. do you remember a story we talked about martinique when the ofulines were suspected being part of the slave conspiracy? the order maintained th