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.
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Esta trilogía de ficción histórica sumerge a los lectores en la tumultuosa era de la Revolución Haitiana. Sigue los viajes de individuos que lucharon por la libertad y la independencia contra el dominio colonial. Las narrativas son ricas en coraje, traición y un espíritu indomable en un momento crucial de la historia mundial. Sumérgete en los dramáticos eventos que dieron forma a una de las primeras naciones libres de América.
