Description
A Novel Set In The Final Years Of The Haitian Revolution At The Dawn Of The Nineteenth Century. Trouillot Constructs An Intricate Narrative Web From The Varied Experiences Of Freedmen And -women, Maroons, Enslaved African People And Their Creole Children, And French Planters And White Smallholders In Colonial Saint-domingue At The Time Of The Last Confrontations Between The Haitian Revolutionaries And Napoleon's Imperial Forces - A Conflict That Resulted In The Success Of The Largest Slave Revolt In Recorded History And The Independence Of The First Black State In The Western Hemisphere-- Provided By Publisher.
