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Emeric Bergeaud's Stella (1859), the first Haitian novel ever published, combines descriptions of moving scenes with factual accounts of the thirteen years of the Haitian revolution (1791-1804). Stella is an epic saga: the novel's chapter headings refer to major events in Haiti's history, and the major historical figures -- Toussaint, Pétion, Christophe, Sonthonax, and Leclerc, among many others -- are present. Stella is therefore also an important document of Caribbean history. Written whi...