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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
4 reviews
himpersonal's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
booksthatburn's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Racism, Slavery, Grief, Death of parent, and War
Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Terminal illness, Torture, and Violence
Minor: Rape and Vomit
charity1313's review
4.0
"Georges remembers everything with an encyclopedic obsession. When he returns to confront the white people who have wronged his family, he profits at every turn by the fact that they live only in the present. The past is not alive to them the way it is to Georges, they do not remember and thus do not see the reality of things. That reality was the dream Georges has come to embody: that a black man can become a nobleman and be better educated and more talented and powerful than the white plantation owners." - Prologue, Part 2
"To him, there was only one kind of loyalty that mattered - loyalty to him [Napoleon]. Napoleon was not Cincinnatus, he was Caesar." - Chapter 17
"But, clothing themselves in the trappings of democracy, dictators may, like drag queens, tend to overdo it." - Chapter 22
Moderate: Gun violence, Torture, and Violence
sherbertwells's review
4.0
Oh shoot. I’m going to have to read The Count of Monte Cristo now, aren’t I.
Graphic: Racism and Slavery
Moderate: Torture
Minor: Child death, Death, Sexual assault, and Violence
The relationship between General Dumas' father and his mother is probably not consensual. Reiss describes the history and dynamics of master/slave relationships on Saint Domingue, and it's pretty clear that enslaved women didn't have much of a choice when approached by white French aristocrats like Dumas' father. But not a lot of historical records exist for her, so Reiss doesn't say anything definitively.