Madison Smartt Bell's _All Souls' Rising_ is an excellent novel of the
Haitian Revolution based largely on unpublished first-hand accounts in
Chicago's Newberry Library.  Among other things, it sheds light upon the
Virginia Republicans' terror at the thought of "St. Domingo."
Prof. K.R. Constantine Gutzman
Department of History
Western Connecticut State University

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