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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | Toussaint Louverture; Toussaint Louverture |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
C L R James; James Walvin |
ISBN: | 0140299815 9780140299816 |
OCLC Number: | 824177309 |
Notes: | Originally published: London : Secker & Warburg, 1938. |
Description: | xx, 363 pages : map ; 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. |
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...


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