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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | Toussaint Louverture; Pierre Dominique Toussaint Louverture; Toussaint Louverture; François D Toussaint Louverture |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
C L R James; James Walvin |
ISBN: | 0140299815 9780140299816 |
OCLC Number: | 46332394 |
Notes: | This edition originally published: London : Allison and Busby, 1980. Previous edition: London : Secker and Warburg, 1938. |
Description: | xx, 363 pages : 1 map ; 20 cm |
Contents: | I. The Property -- II. The Owners -- III. Parliament and Property -- IV. The San Domingo Masses Begin -- V. And the Paris Masses Complete -- VI. The Rise of Toussaint -- VII. The Mulattoes Try and Fail -- VIII. The White Slave-Owners Again -- IX. The Explusion of the British -- X. Toussaint Seizes the Power -- XI. The Black Consul -- XII. The Bourgeoisie Prepares to Restore Slavery -- XIII. The War of Independence -- Appendix: From Toussaint L'Ouverture to Fidel Castro. |
Responsibility: | C.L.R. James ; with an introduction and notes by James Walvin. |
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The black Plato of our generation ... the founding father of African emancipation. * The Times * Contains some of the finest and most deeply felt polemical writing against slavery and racism ever to be published. * Time Out * The Black Jacobins is one of the great books of the twentieth century ... one that wrote the history of a people supposedly without history. -- Catherine Hall James is, quite simply, the outstanding West Indian of the twentieth century. -- Caryl Phillips A starting point and an intellectual inspiration ... a classic of masterly historical writing. -- James Walvin 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. -- New York Times Read more...


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