The Black Count

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 1, 2012

Tom Reiss tells the true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo. The Black Count tells the story of General Alex Dumas, who was the son of a black slave in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), and rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time.

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