The Caribbean - a sweltering racial cauldron where white fought black in a violent atmosphere of mistrust and injustice.

One man - Toussaint l'Ouverture, the Black Emperor - towered above the ruins of San Domingo, but even his dreams of peace were crushed by the hell of prison.

The fate of the island fell into the hands of Delie, the young and beautiful Voodoo Queen who trod the dangerous path of the dead and the damned.

First published by New English Library Ltd in 1972
© by Adam Turner 1972
First NEL Paperback Edition May 1973

Front cover photograph: Lagarde

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I understand there are a good many Southerners in the room tonight. I know the South very well. I spent twenty years there one night...

"Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.'

"I said: 'That's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.'

"About that time these three cousins came in, you know the ones I mean, Klu, Kluck, and Klan, and they say: 'Boy, we're givin' you fair warnin'. Anything you do to that chicken, we're gonna do to you.' About then the waitress brought me my chicken. 'Remember, boy, anything you do to that chicken, we're gonna do to you.' So I put down my knife and fork, and I picked up that chicken, and I kissed it."

Dear Momma- Wherever you are, if you ever hear the word "nigger" again, remember they are advertising my book. - DEDICATION

© 1964 by Dick Gregory Enterprises Inc.
E.P.Dutton edition published September 1964
A Pocket Cardinal Editon 1st Print July, 1965. 9th Print August, 1968.

First, we gave you BLACK PRINCE, heir to a million souls that bled for liberation...

Then there was BLACK EMPEROR, the number one black man who turned bondage into lust...

And now - BLACK LOVER, the story of a girl brought up in a convent who leaves her husband's bed to become a runaway, hiding in the hovels and crude camps of black slaves. This is the story of her lover, a man so magnificent that he is prepared to lose his manhood to save her life!

First published by Lancer Books under the title of 'Black Love' in 1969
© by Script Associates 1969
First NEL Paperback Edition March 1972
Reprinted September 1972
This New Edition July 1974