New York: Basic Books, 2016. First edition - The definitive biography of the man, born into bondage in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) who became a freedman, then a small planter and finally the leader in 1791 of the only successful slave revolt in history, although he was exiled to France and spent the last year of his life in a prison cell. Maps. Illustrated. Extensive notes, bibliographic essay. 323 pp.