It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. Provocative and empowering.β β The New York Times Book Review βOne of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition. This powerful and impassioned history of the Haitian Revolution of 1791β1803 is the classic account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history.
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