Our rakish hero, Alan Lewrie, is in trouble with his wife, condemned by his daughter, and out of favor with the Admiralty. He is luckyenough to receive a command position on an expedition to the West Indies, thereto suppress a bloodthirsty slave rebellion led by Toussaint L’Ouverture, thefuture father of Haitian independence. In Haiti, L’Ouverture’s forces aresacking plantations and slaughtering whites and mulattoes. The French make ahasty compact with the En.
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