![]() The first half centers on the brief, degraded lives of slaves on the island and the build-up to the slave revolt. Tété's own son with Valmorain has been taken from her, she knows not where, and her lover, a young, proud African, runs off to join the rebels. His right-hand man in this is the brutal overseer Prosper Cambray, feared by all.Ĭambray lusts after Tété, Valmorain's wife's maid and soon, as the wife descends more deeply into madness, Valmorain's mistress and primary caretaker of his son. But the death of his father and the disarray of his sugar plantation make escape impossible, so Valmorain throws himself into making the property a success. ![]() Valmorain came to the island at the age of 20, a rich noble anxious for a quick return to Paris. ![]() The mulatto slave Zarité, known as Tété, and her owner, the French planter Toulouse Valmorain, form the center of Allende's novel about slavery and the slave revolt that freed Haiti. ![]()
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