A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French
colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater
brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a
slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king in the
Western Hemisphere. In prose of often dreamlike coloration and
intensity, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of the black
regime--built on the same corruption and contempt for human life
that brought down the French while embodying the same hollow
grandeur of false elegance, attained only through slave labor--in
an orgy of voodoo, race hatred, madness, and erotomania.
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