The Black Jacobins
Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
C. L. R. James
This powerful and intense book delves into the first revolution in the Third World - the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803. It tells the story of Toussaint L'Ouverture, a barely literate slave who led the black people of San Domingo in a successful struggle against overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces. The Black Jacobins shows the brutality of the master toward the slaves in the French colony of San Domingo and how it led to the formation of the first independent nation in the Caribbean, becoming a model for Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba.
Publish Date
1989-10-23T00:00:00.000Z
1989-10-23T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1938
Goodreads Rating
4.38
ISBN
9780679724674
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2011-03-22T00:00:00.000Z
The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James (the story of Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian revolution) is my favorite leadership book ever and one of the great stories in human history (in fact, I should probably write a blog post about it). – source