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Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
3 reviews
miguelito_juanito's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Slavery, Colonisation, and Racial slurs
Moderate: Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and War
imlfox's review
adventurous
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation, Racism, and Slavery
Moderate: Violence
melbsreads's review
challenging
informative
medium-paced
4.0
Trigger warnings: slavery, war, colonialism, racism, racial slurs, death, death of a child, incarceration.
I'm having one of those situations where I'd never heard of Toussaint Louverture prior to picking up this book and all of a sudden, he's everywhere all the time. Wild.
Anyway. This was extremely compelling, and I was fascinated by a lot of the changes implemented by Louverture, particularly around education for all and around insuring that there was equal representation of the Black, white and mixed race populations in the administration.
It was, on the whole, a biography that paints him in a very positive light and kind of glosses over the fact that after his enslavement ended, Louverture was himself an enslaver. Obviously, that changed following the uprising but it would have been nice to have more recognition of his humanity and the fact that he was as much a product of the 18th century system as anyone.
Anyway. This was a very thorough examination of Louverture's life and legacy, and I'm really glad I picked it up. I knew the basics of the Haitian revolution, but this filled in a lot of gaps for me very nicely.
I'm having one of those situations where I'd never heard of Toussaint Louverture prior to picking up this book and all of a sudden, he's everywhere all the time. Wild.
Anyway. This was extremely compelling, and I was fascinated by a lot of the changes implemented by Louverture, particularly around education for all and around insuring that there was equal representation of the Black, white and mixed race populations in the administration.
It was, on the whole, a biography that paints him in a very positive light and kind of glosses over the fact that after his enslavement ended, Louverture was himself an enslaver. Obviously, that changed following the uprising but it would have been nice to have more recognition of his humanity and the fact that he was as much a product of the 18th century system as anyone.
Anyway. This was a very thorough examination of Louverture's life and legacy, and I'm really glad I picked it up. I knew the basics of the Haitian revolution, but this filled in a lot of gaps for me very nicely.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Slavery
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