Book One
Intrigue - Romance - Betrayal And the Haitian Revolution 1771 - 1793
In 1771, young Jean Baptiste returned from his university in Paris to his home on the Caribbean island of St. Domingue—now the Republic of Haiti. He needed to determine if life on a plantation suited him. He soon met the beautiful Marie Jasmine, and they fell in love and began an exciting life together in the French colony.
This is the untold story of this era, which has long been absent from high school history books and university lecture halls. It is the story of the Haitian people; and a triumphant revolution too far ahead of its time to avoid a tragic end.
Eighty years before emancipation in America, a slave-led revolt defeated the French, British, and Spanish militaries, forming a new nation from the burning embers of the richest colony in the world.
Packed with romance, war, drama, intrigue, political betrayal, and pirates—this historical non-fiction novel reveals a heretofore unknown period of history in the form of an irresistible page-turner.
Learn how Haitian Generals, soldiers, businessmen, and property owners without formal military or political training, outmaneuvered the combined might of the most powerful armies of the world and formed the first Black slave republic in history.
