Title: Drums at dusk
First published: 1939
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.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Fiction, historical, Fiction, war & military, Haiti, fiction
Places: Haiti
People: Toussaint Louverture (1743?-1803)
Time periods: Revolution, 1791-1804