Bell, Madison Smartt.

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


Haiti--History--Fiction.--Revolution, 1791-1804


Historical fiction.
Uncorrected proofs (Printing)--United States--20th century.

110 PS 3552 / B433a 1995

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