![]() ![]() The formidable first mate persuades James to board his ship, on its way to the revolt in Saint-Domingue. But when he meets Denmark Vesey, James is immediately smitten. ![]() In 1793, as revolutionaries in the West Indies take up arms, James Hemings has little interest in joining the fight for liberté-talented and favored, he is careful to protect his relative comforts as Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved chef. Begin the World Over is a counterfactual novel about the Founders’ greatest fear-that Black and Indigenous people might join forces to undo the newly formed United States of America-coming true. A revolutionary tale of Black and Indigenous insurrection. ![]()
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