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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint l'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution Paperback - 1989

by C. L. James; Introduction by David Scott Scott


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This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who led the black people of San Domingo in a successful struggle against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces and in the process helped form the first independent nation in the Caribbean.

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This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba.

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  • Title The Black Jacobins: Toussaint l'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
  • Author C. L. James; Introduction by David Scott Scott
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Secon
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.s.a.
  • Date 1989-10-23
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780679724674 / 0679724672
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5 x 1 in (19.81 x 12.70 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Caribbean
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Haiti - History - Revolution, 1791-1804, Toussaint Louverture
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code 972.94

Media reviews

"Brilliantly conceived and executed...The absorbing narrative never departs from its rigid faithfulness to method and documentation."

-- Books

"Mr. James is not afraid to touch his pen with the flame of ardent personal feeling -- a sense of justice, love of freedom, admiration for heroism, hatred for tyranny -- and his detailed, richly documented and dramatically written book holds a deep and lasting interest."

-- The New York Times

About the author

C. L. R. JAMES (1901-1989) was a Trinidadian-born historian, literary critic, and philosopher, and a leader of the pan-African movement. A prodigious and eclectic intellectual, he debated Marcus Garvey in England, confronted Trotsky in Mexico, and influenced leaders of African revolutions including Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. He is perhaps best remembered for his 1938 masterwork, The Black Jacobins, the first major analysis of the Haitian Revolution in the context of the French Revolution. In addition to his works of history and his political activism, he was known for sports writing, playwriting, and fiction; his novel Minty Alley, written in 1927, was the first by a Black person from the West Indies to be published in Britain and his 1963 book, Beyond a Boundary, has been hailed as the best book on cricket ever written.
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