The Black Jacobins
by CLR James
The only successful slave revolution in history, fully told.
you want to understand the Haitian Revolution as the world-historical event it actually was
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Toussaint L'Ouverture led the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue in the only successful slave revolution in history, defeating Napoleon's army and founding Haiti in 1804. CLR James — a Trinidadian Marxist intellectual — wrote this account in 1938 as both history and political theory. The most important Caribbean political text on this shelf. The dispatch that restored the Haitian Revolution to its rightful place as one of the defining events of the modern world — not a footnote to European history but its own chapter, written by the people who made it happen.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Haiti • Caribbean
- Voice
- Written by a Haitian author
- Themes
- True Cost of EmpireAfter Empire
