An 'Age of Revolutions' began in America in 1776 and rippled outwards, to France in 1789 and on to the Caribbean in the years after that. Sprawling across this time is the life of a compelling figure. Henry Christophe was born (most likely) on Grenada in 1767 and he rose to international fame for his role in the Haiti Revolution in the 1790s.

Christophe is an elusive biographical subject. Accounts of his life are conflicting and they are further complicated by his appearance in a variety of fictional works. To this challenge the historian Marlene L. Daut brings a clear scholar's eye and a decade's archival research. The result is a vital new look at a central figure in modern political and cultural history.

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