An edition of Drums at dusk (1939)
Drums at dusk
a novel
By Arna Bontemps
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Publish Date
1939
Publisher
Macmillan
Language
eng
Pages
226
Description:
Drums at Dusk is a story of love, violence, and race set at the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution in 1791. The novel explores the complex web of tensions connecting wealthy plantation owners, poor whites, free people of color, and the slaves who stunned the colony and the globe by uniting in a carefully planned uprising.
subjects: Fiction, History, Fiction, historical, Fiction, war & military, Haiti, fiction
People: Toussaint Louverture (1743?-1803)
Places: Haiti
Times: Revolution, 1791-1804