description: In this first installment of his epic Haitian trilogy, Madison Smartt Bell brings to life a decisive moment in the history of race, class, and colonialism. The slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove to overturn a vicious system of slavery, the uprising successfully transformed Haiti from a European colony to the world’s first Black republic. From the center of this horrific maelstrom, the heroic figure of Toussaint Louverture–a loyal, literate slave and both a devout Catholic and Vodouisant–emerges as the man who will take the merciless fires of violence and vengeance and forge a revolutionary war fueled by liberty and equality.Bell assembles a kaleidoscopic portrait of this seminal movement through a tableau of characters that encompass black, white, male, female, rich, poor, free and enslaved. Pulsing with brilliant detail, All Soul’s Rising provides a visceral sense of the pain, terror, confusion, and triumph of revolution.
language: English
title: All Souls' Rising
titlecomplete: All Souls' Rising
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, American, 18th Century, Social, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Race
ratings_count: 1034
places: Haiti
series: Haiti Series
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books / Granta