Secret History: or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura Quizzes written as only a man

written as only a man who has “been there and done that” could tell it

Eleanor & Franklin "is a beautiful book - beautiful in its scholarship

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ISBN13: 9780310546207 ISBN10: 0310546206 Material Type: hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical novels as North and South and The Kent Family Chronicles compiled in one volume a century's worth of his favorite

Secret History: or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura Quizzes written as only a manBased on Leonora Sansays eyewitness accounts of the final days of French rule in Saint Domingue (Haiti), Secret History is a vivid account of race warfare and domestic violence. Sansays writing provocatively draws comparisons between Saint Domingue during the Haitian Revolution and the postrevolutionary United States, while fluidly combining qualities of the eighteenth century epistolary novel, colonial travel writing, and political analysis. Laura,