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 invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces-and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. 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. A classic and impassioned account of the Haitian Revolution the first revolution in the Third World and the model for the liberation movements from Africa to. 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.

The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. In this classic work, CLR James chronicles the only successful slave revolt in history and provides a critical portrait of their leader, Toussaint LOuverture, one of the most remarkable men of a period rich in remarkable men. Provocative and empowering.” – The New York Times Book Review “One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition. Book review: Confronting Black Jacobins March 22, 20165:08 PM CDTBy Tony Pecinovsky In the introduction to his book, Confronting Black Jacobins, Gerald Horne writes that the 1804 Haitian.

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. The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C.

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