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The Black Jacobins

C. L. R. James

How did enslaved people in Saint Domingue overthrow a brutal slave system and build the free republic of Haiti?

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Author
C. L. R. James

Why read it

  • You will see that enslaved people were actors in history who organized and won, not only victims
  • You will understand how a revolution in one country can set another in motion, as events in France did in the Caribbean
  • You will learn how a leader rises in a revolution and how a single mistake can end his career

Who it is for

  • A history reader interested in revolutions beyond Europe
  • A student of Caribbean or Atlantic history
  • Someone studying how oppressed groups win power

Contents

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. FOREWORD
  3. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
  4. Prologue
  5. I
  6. The Property
  7. II
  8. The Owners
  9. III
  10. Parliament and Property
  11. IV
  12. The San Domingo Masses Begin
  13. V
  14. And the Paris Masses Complete
  15. VI
  16. The Rise of Toussaint
  17. VII
  18. The Mulattoes Try and Fail
  19. VIII
  20. The White Slave-Owners Again
  21. IX
  22. The Expulsion of the British
  23. X
  24. Toussaint Seizes the Power
  25. XI
  26. The Black Consul
  27. XII
  28. The Bourgeoisie Prepares to Restore Slavery
  29. XIII
  30. The War of Independence
  31. APPENDIX
  32. From Toussaint L'Ouverture to Fidel Castro

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