The marvelous adventures of Pierre Baptiste
Subtitle: father and mother, first and last : [a novel]
By: Patricia Eakins.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Slavery -- West Indies, French -- Fiction; Savants (Savant syndrome) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Notes: "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 Guinée 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."