![]() ![]() The country's 40,000 whites were themselves divided over the outcome of the recent revolution in France. But the fighting wasn't only between black slaves and white owners the colony had a Byzantine social structure that recognized 64 different ``shades'' of mulatto of the half-million blacks in Saint Domingue, some 30,000 were free mulattos whose political interests often ran contrary to those of the slaves. ![]() In 1791, when the Caribbean island that native Amerindians called ``Hayti'' was divided between a Spanish colony in the east and the French colony of Saint Domingue, a slave revolt broke out in the French territory that claimed 12,000 lives in its first months. ![]() In an astonishing novel of epic scope, Bell (Save Me, Joe Louis) follows the lives of a handful of characters from radically different social strata during the period of Haiti's struggle for independence. ![]()
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