Bell's Haitian royalists decide to stage an insurrection of the African slaves, who are the population's vast majority. As a response to the May 15th decree, Mr. On May 15, 1791, the French National Assembly granted full political rights to free mulattoes in Haiti.
Bell brings to his novelistic chaos is never fixed, always provisional yet, alert readers will not lose their way following his carefully drawn road map through hell. Toward the end of Madison Smartt Bell's novel about the revolt, "All Souls' Rising," his central character notes that the corpses unaccountably dragged from the middle of a Haitian street and lined against the walls represent an exotic "impulse to bring order into hell's worst chaos." We may conclude the same about this epic novel constructed on the moving avalanche of history. It takes a skillful rage for order to make sense of the moral and political morass that was Haiti in the midst of its historic uprising. With each arriving wave of rumor and news, loyalties switched, authority changed hands, the last became first, retribution threatened. The result was a complex struggle among Haitian groups trying to align themselves with a shifting template 5,000 miles away. HAITI'S 18th-century slave rebellion - an object lesson for slave owners in the United States - played itself out against the unfolding revolution in the colony's mother country, France. ALL SOULS' RISING By Madison Smartt Bell.
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