description: The Haiti of this novel is a malarial, fetid place, haunted by its genocidal past. The slaves are planning a rebellion and the aristocratic French plantation owners are preparing to crush it. At the heart of the novel lies Toussaint Louverture, a self-educated, second-generation African slave.
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: London, Granta (1996).