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. JAMES (1901-1989) was a Trinidadian-born historian, literary critic, and philosopher, and a leader of the pan-African movement. 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 absorbing narrative never departs from its rigid faithfulness to method and documentation. The New York Times Book Review Brilliantly conceived and executed. Review Quotes One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.

From the Back Cover 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. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint LOuverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces-and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. The New York Times Book Review The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition. Book Synopsis This powerful and impassioned history of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803 is the classic account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history.

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