1.   A discussion of subjects as diverse as lies, noses, slave rebellions, baseball and hunting.

2.   But a map cannot delineate the intricate network of loyalties and identities that Bell conjures in his novel of the Haitian slave rebellion.

3.   France was simply desperate to sell the territory because of setbacks it had suffered from the slave rebellion in Haiti and impending war with England.

4.   Haiti, whose independence was born of a slave rebellion and inspired by Enlightenment notions of human rights, came to be dominated by a light-skinned elite.

5.   In Jamaica, they joined the Maroon slave rebellion and later became landowners, maintaining islands of independence in a sea of servitude.

6.   Now, some historians are also calling the seven-year struggle the largest slave rebellion in United States history.

7.   Some of these are described with harshly accurate violence, as in descriptions of a slave rebellion and a lynching.

8.   The numerous slave rebellions and independence fights also helped develop an independent-minded population.

9.   The slave rebellion Brown expected did not materialize.

10.   There was conflict from the start, with violent slave rebellions and violent reactions to fears of slave uprisings.