Drums at dusk
Subtitle: a novel
By: Arna Bontemps ; with a new introduction by Michael P. Bibler and Jessica Adams.
Series: Library of Southern civilization
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press; LSU Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780807134399
Subjects: Toussaint Louverture, -- 1743?-1803 -- Fiction; Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Drums at Dusk is a story of love, violence, and race set at the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution in 1791. The novel explores the complex web of tensions connecting wealthy plantation owners, poor whites, free people of color, and the slaves who stunned the colony and the globe by uniting in a carefully planned uprising.