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…showed last 75 words of 625 total…scerally to life. At the center of the tale is a charismatic, second-generation African slave know as Toussaint/Louverture, who is determined to resist the excesses of the mob and still put an end to the brutal French dominion. He is joined by a cast of brilliantly drawn characters-black, white, rich, poor, free, and enslaved-whose lives unfold and intertwine as the current of outrage among the slaves builds into a raging, unstoppable insurrection. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**