Description: In this fascinating biography, the first about Toussaint Louverture to appear in English in more than 50 years, Bell combines a novelist's passion for his subject with a deep knowledge of the historical milieu that produced the man known either as a martyr of the Haitian revolution or as the instigator of one of history's most savagely violent events.
Review Quotes: "A brilliant and truly gripping biography." --The New York Review of Books"Epic. . . .The best biography of Toussaint yet." --The New York Times Book Review"Bell has stripped away the myths--demonology as well as hagiography--to give us a nuanced, sympathetic portrait of a complicated, tragic, but undeniably heroic figure." --Minneapolis Star-Tribune"An excellent introduction to one of the great, if elusive, personalities of history." --The Boston Review