ISBN10: 0679724672, ISBN13: 9780679724674, [publisher: Penguin Random House] Softcover Unread copy in mint condition
[Avenel, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1989]

ISBN10: 0679724672, ISBN13: 9780679724674, [publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 17911803One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition. Provocative and empowering. The New York Times Book ReviewThe Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. 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. 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. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint LOuverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forcesand in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean.With a new introduction (2023) by Professor David Scott. Describes the background and the events of the successful twelve-year revolt of the San Domingian slaves which resulted in the establishment of Haiti in 1803. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
[Stevenage, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1989]