The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution James C. L. R.Paperback
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution James C. L. R.Paperback This powerful and impassioned history of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803 is the classic account of…
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution James C. L. R.Paperback
This powerful and impassioned history of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803 is the classic account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history. Provocative and empowering." -The New York Times Book ReviewThe Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. "One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition. . . .
It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive