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Genre/Form: | biografie |
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Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Cyril Lionel Robert James |
ISBN: | 9780140299816 0140299815 |
OCLC Number: | 803450998 |
Description: | XX, 363, [1] s. ; 20 cm. |
Contents: | The property; the owners; parliament and property; the San Domingo masses begin; and the Paris masses complete; the rise of Toussaint; the Mulattoes try and fail; the white slave-owners again; the expulsion of the British; Toussaint seizes the power; the black consul; the bourgeoisie prepares to restore slavery; the War of Independence. |
Series Title: | Penguin Books., History. |
Other Titles: | Black Jacobins |
Responsibility: | C. L. R. James. |
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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...

