Imprint: Penguin
Published: 31/05/2001
ISBN: 9780140299816
Length: 384 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
Weight: 266g
RRP: £14.99
In 1789 the West Indian colony of San Domingo supplied two-thirds of the overseas trade of France. The entire structure of what was arguably the most profitable colony in the world rested on the labour of half a million slaves. In 1791 the waves of unrest inspired by the French Revolution reached across the Atlantic dividing the loyalties of the white population of the island. The brutally treated slaves of Saint Domingo seized at this confusion and rose up in rebellion against masters. In this classic work, CLR James chronicles the only successful slave revolt in history and provides a critical portrait of their leader, Toussaint L'Ouverture, 'one of the most remarkable men of a period rich in remarkable men'.
Imprint: Penguin
Published: 31/05/2001
ISBN: 9780140299816
Length: 384 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
Weight: 266g
RRP: £14.99
The black Plato of our generation ... the founding father of African emancipation.
Contains some of the finest and most deeply felt polemical writing against slavery and racism ever to be published.
The Black Jacobins is one of the great books of the twentieth century ... one that wrote the history of a people supposedly without history.
James is, quite simply, the outstanding West Indian of the twentieth century.
A starting point and an intellectual inspiration ... a classic of masterly historical writing.
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.