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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 972.9403
EAN: 9780679724674
ISBN: 0679724672
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: October 23, 1989
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: October 23, 1989
Sales Rank: 144621
Studio: Vintage
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A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World.
This powerful, intensely dramatic 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 the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave 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 nation in the Caribbean.
"Brilliantly conceived and executed...The absorbing narrative never departs from its rigid faithfulness to method and documentation."
-- Books
"Mr. 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."
-- The New York Times
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In 1789 the French colony of Saint Domingue was the most profitable real estate in the world. These profits came at a price: while its sugar plantations supplied two-thirds of France's overseas trade, they also stimulated the greatest individual market for the slave trade. The slaves were brutally treated and died in great numbers, prompting a never-ending influx of new slaves.
The French Revolution sent waves all the way across the Atlantic, dividing the colony's white population in 1791. The elites remained royalist, while the bourgeoisie embraced the revolutionary ideals. The slaves seized the moment and in the confusion rebelled en masse against their owners. The Haitian Slave Revolt had begun. When it ended in 1803, Saint Domingue had become Haiti, the first independent nation in the Caribbean.
C.L.R. James tells the story of the revolt and the events leading up to it in his masterpiece, The Black Jacobins. James's personal beliefs infuse his narrative: in his preface to a 1962 edition of the book, he asserts that , when written in 1938, it was "intended to stimulate the coming emancipation of Africa." James writes passionately about the horrific lives of the slaves and of the man who rose up and led them--a semiliterate slave named François-Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture. As James notes, however, "Toussaint did not make the revolution. It was the revolution that made Toussaint."
With its appendix, "From Toussaint L'Ouverture to Fidel Castro," The Black Jacobins provides an excellent window into the Haitian Revolution and the worldwide repercussions it caused. --Sunny Delaney
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~The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution~ is considered the classic work on the Haitian Revolution, which inaugurated Atlantic World studies as a field. Madison Bell's Toussaint Louverture is a better biographical vignette of Louverture, then trying to glean insight from James' work. Laurent Dubois and David Patrick Geggis, the more modern Haitian Revolution scholars should be approached first. C.L.R. James' work, though a classic, has become antiquated, and is too ... Read More
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Excellent!
At time, Mr. James annoyed me to no end. But what kept me reading was he had the balls to write truth, though at times his constantly editorializing made me roll my eyes. His work has certainly added to my body of knowledge about Haiti, Toussaint and other players.
The fact is that the Haitians kicked Bonapart and the French army's butt, coming and going! They lost over 50,000 men.
The Black Jacobins deals more with Toussaint the man, and acquaints ... Read More
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As a first generation Haitian-American I've always been fascinated by the culture of my ancestors. My father used to tell me if I wanted to understand Black America I needed to understand Haitian history. He would say, "How Haiti goes so go Black people". Reading Black Jacbins has given me a better understanding of the message he was trying to convey.
The challenges Blacks in many countries around the world face today mirror those that originated within the Haitian revolution. Beyond ... Read More
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'The Black Jacobins', by C.L.R. James, is so sodden with Marxist cant as to be nearly useless. He can't get the story straight through all the verbiage. A far better account of Toussaint is found in Richard Gillespie's book, Papa Toussaint.
The other problem with James' book is he almost completely ignores military engagements. One can read the entire book and almost never learn of the War of the Knives. Given Toussaint's obvious military genius, this is a serious weakness. Again, Gillespie ... Read More
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My interest the book was kindled by Michener's reference to it in his book 'THe Caribbean' which I only read recently.
When I would see black people holding high office in the US army I would see it as evidence of the enlightened attitude of the American society. I now know that that 'enlightenment' wast the result of a lesson taught by Haitians since the 1790's.
An excellent work which should be read by all especially Caribbean blacks!
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