Post-racial
To find the first mixed race leader in the West you need to go back to revolutionary France, writes biographer Tom Reiss.
Tom Reiss has just published a biography of General Alexandre Dumas called The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo. His last book, The Orientalist, was a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
To find the first mixed race leader in the West you need to go back to revolutionary France, writes biographer Tom Reiss.