The Stone that the Builder Refused by Madison Smartt Bell

The Stone that the Builder Refused by Madison Smartt Bell

Following the widely acclaimed All Souls' Rising and Master of the Crossroads, Madison Smartt Bell gives us the climactic final chapter in the life of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the only successful slave revolution in history.
In 1791, what would become known as the Haitian Revolution began as a rebellion of African slaves against their white masters in the French colony of Saint Domingue. By 1793 Toussaint had emerged as the leader of the revolt, proving himself to be as adept at politics as he was on the battlefield. By 1801 he had succeeded in stabilizing the war-ravaged territory and invited exiled white planters, whose expertise was needed, to return and reclaim their properties. The foundation of a society based on liberty, genuine equality, and brotherhood among whites, blacks, and mulattos seemed in place. But the proclamation of a new constitution that abolished slavery and appointed Toussaint governor for life incited Napoleon to dispatch troops in order to reestablish control over the island.
The Stone That the Builder Refused spans the final phase of Toussaint's career and paints an astonish-ingly detailed and riveting portrait of a new society breaking forth from the chrysalis of a revolution, of the vision that impelled Toussaint to create a society based on principle and idealism, and of the dreadful compromises he was forced to make in order to
preserve it.
A masterly weave of the factual and the imagined, this grand culmination of Bell's landmark Toussaint Louverture trilogy stands alone as a towering achievement of historical fiction.

Madison Smartt Bell is the author of twelve novels and two short story collections. Soldier's Joy, Dr. Sleep, Ten Indians, and Save Me, Joe Louis are among his works. All Souls' Rising, his seventh novel, was a National Book Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. Bell is a professor of English at Goucher College and the director of the Kratz Center for Creative Writing. He and his family live in Maryland.

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ISBN 13	9781400076185
ISBN 10	1400076188
Title	The Stone that the Builder Refused
Author	Madison Smartt Bell
Series	The Haiti Trilogy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2006-02-14
Number of pages	768
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