
A rediscovered classic, and the only known novel by Black abolitionist and political exile Louis Timag ne Houat, The Maroons is a fervid account of slavery and escape on nineteenth-century R union Island. Fr me is a young African man forced into slavery...

Freme is a young African man forced into slavery on Reunion, an island east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Plagued by memories of his childhood sweetheart, a white woman named Marie, Freme seeks her out--but when they are persecuted for their love, the two flee into the forest...

Freme is a young African man forced into slavery on Reunion, an island east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Plagued by memories of his childhood sweetheart, a white woman named Marie, Freme seeks her out--but when they are persecuted for their love, the two flee into the forest...