Tom Reiss - The life of General Alex Dumas is so extraordinary on so many levels that it's easy ...

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The life of General Alex Dumas is so extraordinary on so many levels that it's easy to forget the most extraordinary fact about it: that it was led by a black man, in a world of whites, at the end of the eighteenth century.

Tom Reiss

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Das Leben von General Alex Dumas ist auf so vielen Ebenen so außergewöhnlich, dass man die außergewöhnlichste Tatsache leicht vergessen kann: dass er Ende des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts von einem schwarzen Mann in einer Welt voller Weißer geführt wurde.

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