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on one of the most zealous and courageous servants of Saint Domingue. I have worked for a long time to win honor and glory for my government and to attract the esteem of my fellow citizens, and today I am crowned with thorns and the most marked ingratitude for my compensation, and I don’t deny the mistakes I may have made and I make my excuses to you for them, but that part doesn’t deserve the [severity] of the punishment I have received or the treatment which I suffer: first Consul, it is unfortunate for me that I am not personally known to you, if you had known me to the depths while I was in Saint Domingue, you would be at peace on my account and would render me more justice; my interior is Good.

6 Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985), p. 181.

7 Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, p. 181.

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.

27 Madiou, vol. II, p. 300.

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.

PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

Mimerose Beaubrun: “Ogou o Wa De Zanj” by Mimerose Beaubrun. Copyright © 1998 by Mimerose Beaubrun. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Elizabeth McAlister: “Rara La Belle Fraicheur de l’Anglade” from Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora by Elizabeth McAlister (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, 2002). Reprinted by permission of the author.

Madison Smartt Bell

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.

Also by Madison Smartt Bell

Lavoisier in the Year One

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

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, FEBRUARY 2006

Copyright © 2004 by Madison Smartt Bell

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Portions have previously appeared in the following publications: Calabash, Callaloo, Chattahoochee Review, Conjunctions , Five Points, Ginkgo Tree Review, Idaho Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review.

Permissions acknowledgments appear at the end of the book.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Pantheon edition as follows:

Bell, Madison Smartt.

The stone that the builder refused / Madison Smartt