The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
of C.L.R. James
Description
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World.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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- Format Paperback
- Pages 428 pages
- Publisher Vintage
- Publication Date October 23rd 1989
- First Publication 1938
- Language English
- ISBN 9780679724674
- Edition 2nd Edition
- Category History & Politics
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