Master of the Crossroads

Toussaint L`Ouverture was a Haitian slave who helped fuel the revolution against the English plantation owners in Haiti in 1793. Madison Smartt Bell creates a portrait of Toussaint over a seven-year period in this biographical novel that illuminates not only the events of history but a complicated, tortured, passionate man. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.