All souls' rising /
Madison Smartt Bell.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Pantheon Books, c1995.
- xiv, 530 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Map of Saint Domingue in the late eighteenth century (Haiti) on end papers.
The 1791 revolt against the French in Haiti through the eyes of the parties in the conflict: mulattos, blacks and whites. The protagonists include its tragic leader, the aristocratic Toussaint L'Ouverture who refused to declare independence from France. A tale of burning plantations, massacres and Byzantine politics.
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Toussaint Louverture, 1743?-1803 --Fiction.
Slave insurrections--Fiction. CEH Colección EStudios Haitianos