All Souls' Rising A Novel of Haiti (1)

by BELL, MADISON SMARTT

• ISBN13: 9781400076536
• ISBN10: 1400076536
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-09
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

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 Louverturea loyal, literate slave and both a devout Catholic and Vodouisantemerges 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 Risingprovides a visceral sense of the pain, terror, confusion, and triumph of revolution.

Author Biography

Madison Smartt Bell is the author of fourteen works of fiction, including The Stone That the Builder Refused; Master of the Crossroads; Save Me, Joe Louis; Dr. Sleep; Soldier's Joy; and Ten Indians. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his family and teaches at Goucher College.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Prologue	3	(6)
Bois Cayman (August 1791)	9	(120)
Leur Cafe Au Caramel (August--November 1791)	129	(134)
Exchange of Prisoners (November 1791--April 1792)	263	(90)
Illumination (August 1792--June 1793)	353	(148)
Envoi	501	(4)
Chronology of Historical Events	505	(19)
Another Devil's Dictionary	524