The marvelous adventures of Pierre Baptiste
father and mother, first and last : [a novel]
by Patricia Eakins
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Fiction, Slavery, Savants (Savant syndrome)Places
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The marvelous adventures of Pierre Baptiste: father and mother, first and last : [a novel]
1999, New York University Press
in English
0814722091 9780814722091
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"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."
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