Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), a new biography by the Mauritius-born, Oxford-based historian Sudhir Hazareesingh, has been called by one critic “by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely to have for a long time.” Drawing on scattered archival sources to reconstruct the life of Haiti’s revolutionary leader, Black Spartacus attempts to reconcile the many myths that have grown up around Toussaint’s story, with a detailed examination of the political and military history of the late eighteenth century.