All Souls’ Rising: A Novel of Haiti (1)-Quality Guarantee

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“A serious historical novel that reads like a dream.” —The Washington Post Book World

“One of the most spohisticated fictional treatments of the enduring themes of class, color, and freedom.” —San Francisco Chronicle

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This first installment of the epic Haitian trilogy bringsto life a decisive moment in the history of race, class, and colonialism. The slaveuprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that sweptover the Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove tooverturn a vicious system of slavery, the uprising successfully transformed Haitifrom a European colony to the world’s first Black the center of thishorrific maelstrom, the heroic figure of Toussaint Louverture–a loyal, literate slaveand both a devout Catholic and Vodouisant–emerges as the man who will take the mercilessfires of violence and vengeance and forge a revolutionary war fueled by liberty andequality.

Bell assembles a kaleidoscopic portrait of this seminal movement througha tableau of characters that encompass black, white, male, female, rich, poor, freeand with brilliant detail, All Soul’s Rising provides a visceralsense of the pain, terror, confusion, and triumph of revolution.