All Souls´ Rising

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 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.