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.
Haiti série Série
Tato série historických románů vás vtáhne do bouřlivého období haitské revoluce. Sledujte osudy lidí, kteří bojovali za svobodu a nezávislost proti koloniální nadvládě. Příběhy jsou plné odvahy, zrady a nezlomného ducha v klíčovém okamžiku světových dějin. Ponořte se do dramatických událostí, které formovaly jeden z prvních svobodných národů Ameriky.
