All souls' rising / Madison Smartt Bell.
Title:
All souls' rising / Madison Smartt Bell.
Author:
Bell, Madison Smartt.
ISBN:
9780679439899
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Publication Information:
New York : Pantheon Books, ©1995.
Physical Description:
xiv, 530 pages : map ; 24 cm
General Note:
Map of Saint Domingue in the late eighteenth century (Haiti) on end papers.
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 1996.
Contents:
pt. I. Bois Cayman (August 1791) -- pt. II. Leur Cafe Au Caramel (August-November 1791) -- pt. III. Exchange of Prisoners (November 1791-April 1792) -- pt. IV. Illumination (August 1792-June 1793) -- Another Devil's Dictionary.
Abstract:
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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