![]() ![]() Prologue, part 1: Febru- Prologue, part 2: Janu- The sugar factory - The Black Code - Norman Conquest - "No one is a slave in France" - Americans in Paris - Black Count in the City of Light - A queen's dragoon - Summers of revolution - "Regeneration by blood" - "The black heart also beats for liberty" - "Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-403) and index Enlisting as a private, he rose to command armies at the height of the Revolution in an audacious campaign across Europe and the Middle East - until he met an implacable enemy he could not defeat Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Alex Dumas was briefly sold into bondage but made his way to Paris where he was schooled as a sword-fighting member of the French aristocracy. Yet, hidden behind these swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: the real hero was the son of a black slave - who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time. The real-life protagonist of The Black Count, General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today yet with a story that is strikingly familiar, because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used it to create some of the best loved heroes of literature. ![]()
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