The marvelous adventures of Pierre Baptiste : father and mother, first and last /
Eakins, Patricia.
New York ; London : New York University Press,
c1999.
"Including: the tribulations of bondage in the Sugar Isles, Pierre's escape from certain harm to his person, how he was marooned, his friends & religion, his true wife & fishy consorts, his children, born from his mouth like words, physics and metaphysics, cyclopedish histoire, flora, fauna, & mysteriosi, revenge and devotion, divinations, commonplace book.".
"Being a true account of the life and times of an African man of letters, a Son of Guině born into bondage, whose ambitions were realized in STRANGE AND UNEXPECTED WAYS, yet who made his PEACE with several gods and established a REALM of Equality & Freedom & Bounty, in which no creature lives from another's labor.".
Slavery
Savants (Savant syndrome)