530 pages
English language
Published Oct. 8, 1996 by Penguin Books.
All souls' rising
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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.
Subjects
- Toussaint Louverture, -- 1743?-1803 -- Fiction
- Slavery -- Haiti -- Insurrections, etc. -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Fiction