At the end of the 1700s, French Saint Domingue was the richest and most brutal colony in the Western Hemisphere. A mere twelve years later, however, Haitian rebels had defeated the Spanish, British, and French and declared independence after the first--and only--successful slave revolt in history. Much of the success of the revolution must be credited to one man, Toussaint Louverture, a figure about whom surprisingly little is known. In this…
Author: Madison Smartt Bell · Original publisher: Pantheon Books (New York), 2007 (first edition, ISBN 9780375423376); paperback (later/standard edition) Vintage Books, 2008 (ISBN 978-1-4000-7935-3)
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