Desiree Congo

"A novel set in the final years of the Haitian Revolution at the dawn of the nineteenth century. Trouillot constructs an intricate narrative web from the varied experiences of freedmen and -women, maroons, enslaved African people and their Creole children, and French planters and white smallholders in colonial Saint-Domingue at the time of the last confrontations between the Haitian revolutionaries and Napoleon's imperial forces - a conflict that resulted in the success of the largest slave revolt in recorded history and the independence of the first Black state in the Western hemisphere"--