The marvelous adventures of Pierre Baptiste : father and mother, first and last : [a novel] /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eakins, Patricia, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [1999]
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Description
Item Description:"Including the tribulations of bondage in the Sugar Isles, Pierre's escape from certain harm to his person, how he was marooned, his friends & religion, his true wife & fishy consorts, his children, born from his mouth like words, physics and metaphysics, cyclopedish histoire, flora, fauna, & mysteriosi, revenge and devotion, divinations, commonplace book."
"Being a true account of the life and times of an African man of letters, a Son of Guinée born into bondage, whose ambitions were realized in STRANGE AND UNEXPECTED WAYS, yet who made his PEACE with several gods and established a REALM of Equality & Freedom & Bounty, in which no creature lives from another's labor."
Physical Description:xi, 249 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:0814722091 (alk. paper)