The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

C.L.R. James

448 pages • first pub 1938 (editions)

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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 Cuba.This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Re...

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