Many fans of Alexandre Dumas, the author of the classics The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, know that Dumas was black. But few have heard of Georges, his novel about a black gentleman adventurer raised on Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean. Georges comes from a wealthy, educated family, but he sees how their race puts his father at a disadvantage in society, and he is determined to change that. Among other things, the story features an interracial romance, an attempted slave rebellion, and pirates! Although it doesn’t quite rise to the heights of narrative brilliance of Dumas’s better known works, Georges deserves a place in the history of French literature.
Read if you enjoyed: Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid, The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Prologue 