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The Black Jacobins : Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution / C.L.R. James ; introduction by David Scott.
Annenberg Library - Reserve F1923 .T85 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989, author.
- Scott, David, 1958- author of introduction.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803.
- Toussaint Louverture.
- Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804.
- Haiti.
- Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804--Biography.
- Revolutionaries--Haiti--Biography.
- Revolutionaries.
- Generals--Haiti--Biography.
- Generals.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 426 pages : map ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Vintage books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2023
- Summary:
- A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Caribbean. This book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners was commonplace and horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the Black people of San Domingo in a successful struggle against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces - and in the process helped form the first independent postcolonial nation in the Caribbean. -- Publisher's description.
- 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
- Appendix : from Toussaint L'Ouverture to Fidel Castro.
- Notes:
- "Introduction copyright ©2023 by David Scott"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-389) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780679724674
- 0679724672
- OCLC:
- 1406771179
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