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The volcano which the colonists had long ignored, pretending it did not exist, was now in full eruption. Masses of slaves poured down from the hills, emerging from the plantations as though they had been spewed up from a crater. Being armed they now struck back savagely in turn, likewise without pity or compassion.

Marie Vieux Chauvet

The soul is a millstone, an albatross, it meddles in everything. It creates ties to torture us.

Marie Vieux Chauvet

Marie Vieux Chauvet

Marie Vieux Chauvet

Born: September 16, 1916

Died: June 19, 1973 (aged 56)

Bio: Marie Vieux-Chauvet was a Haitian novelist, poet and playwright. Born and educated in Port-au-Prince, she is most famous works for the novels Fille d'Haïti, La Danse sur le Volcan, Fonds des Nègres, and Amour, Colère, Folie.

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