All Souls' Rising
by Madison Smartt Bell
Description:
In this first installment of his epic Haitian trilogy, Madison Smartt
Bell brings to life a decisive moment in the history of race, class,
and colonialism. The slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous
contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the Western
world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove to
overturn a vicious system of slavery, the uprising successfully
transformed Haiti from a European colony to the world’s first
Black republic. From the center of this horrific maelstrom, the heroic
figure of Toussaint Louverture–a loyal, literate slave and
both a devout Catholic and Vodouisant–emerges as the man who
will take the merciless fires of violence and vengeance and forge a
revolutionary war fueled by liberty and equality.
Bell assembles a kaleidoscopic portrait of this seminal movement
through a tableau of characters that encompass black, white, male,
female, rich, poor, free and enslaved. Pulsing with brilliant detail,
All Soul’s Rising provides a visceral sense of the pain,
terror, confusion, and triumph of revolution.
All Souls' Rising
by Madison Smartt Bell
ISBN:
9781400076536
ISBN-10:
1400076536
Publisher:
Vintage Books (Random House)
Publication Date:
2004
Format:
Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Book Type:
New
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