All souls' rising
By: Madison Smartt Bell.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 530
Subjects: Toussaint Louverture, -- 1743?-1803 -- Fiction; Slavery -- Haiti -- Insurrections, etc. -- Fiction; Historical fiction; Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The 1791 revolt against the French in Haiti through the eyes of the parties in the conflict: mulattos, blacks and whites. The protagonists include its tragic leader, the aristocratic Toussaint L'Ouverture who refused to declare independence from France. A tale of burning plantations, massacres and Byzantine politics.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1995.