A fictional account of the late-eighteenth-century Haitian revolution, focusing on Toussaint Louverture, a self-educated slave, and Dr. Hebert, a man who falls in love with Nanon, a mulatto.
A biography of Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture, looking at his life as a slave and a slave-owner, and arguing that his sometimes controversial actions can be attributed to his desire to win freedom for the slaves of Saint Domingue.
the birth of a new science in an age of revolution
Bell, Madison Smartt
2005
Presents a biography of the life of eighteenth-century French scientist Antoine Lavoisier who laid the foundation for the understanding of modern chemistry.
