8 Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, p. 181.
9 Colonel Alfred Nemours, Histoire de la Captivité et de la Mort de Toussaint Louverture (Paris: Editions Berger Levrault, 1929), p. 31.
10 Nemours, p. 31.
11 Antoine Métral, Histoire de l’Expédition des Français à Saint-Domingue (Paris: Éditions Karthala, 1985), p. 230.
12 Thomas Madiou, Histoire d’Haïti (Port-au-Prince: Éditions Henri Deschamps, 1989), vol. II, p. 171.
13 Madiou, vol. II, p. 173.
14 Madiou, vol. II, p. 172.
15 Pierre Pluchon, Toussaint Louverture (Paris: Fayard, 1989), p. 481.
16 Paul Roussier, ed., Lettres du Général Leclerc (Paris: Société de l’Histoire des Colonies Françaises et Librairie Ernest Leroux, 1937), p. 256.
17 Madiou, vol. II, pp. 209ff.
18 Général Pamphile de Lacroix, La Révolution d’Haïti (Paris: Editions Karthala, 1995), p. 313.
19 Pluchon, p. 481.
20 Victor Schoelcher, Vie de Toussaint Louverture (Paris: Éditions Karthala, 1982), p. 127.
21 Schoelcher, p. 352.
22 Pluchon, p. 533.
23 Pluchon, p. 535.
24 Pluchon, p. 538.
25 Saint-Rémy, Mémoires du Général Toussaint Louverture, Écrits par Lui-Même, Pouvant Sevir à l’Histoire de Sa Vie (Paris: Libraire-éditeur, 1859), p. 64.
26 Métral, p. 263.
28 Roussier, p. 116.
29 Roussier, p. 118.
30 Roussier, p. 126.
31 Madiou, vol. II, p. 303.
32 Madiou, vol. II, p. 305.
33 Madiou, vol. II, p. 324.
34 Pluchon, p. 536.
35 Nemours, p. 275.
36 Pluchon, p. 536.
37 Nemours, p. 270.
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THE Stone THAT THE Builder Refused
Madison Smartt Bell is the author of fourteen works of fiction, including Master of the Crossroads; All Souls’ Rising; Save Me, Joe Louis; Doctor Sleep; Soldier’s Joy; and Ten Indians . He lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with his family and teaches at Goucher College.
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Anything Goes
Master of the Crossroads
Narrative Design
Ten Indians
All Souls’ Rising
Save Me, Joe Louis
Doctor Sleep
Barking Man and Other Stories
Soldier’s Joy
The Year of Silence
Zero db and Other Stories
Straight Cut
Waiting for the End of the World
The Washington Square Ensemble
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