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

5.0

C.L.R. James paints an informative and compelling picture of the Haitian Revolution. I especially enjoyed the first half of the book; James takes care to describe the revolution as a thing effected by the masses, and keeps the people themselves front and center in this history. If the second half falls perhaps a little more into simply a biography of Toussaint himself, it's still extremely well-written and informative.