And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces-and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. 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. The theme was most famously to recur in The Black Jacobins (first published in 1938), a text whose shifting frames of reference and lines of emplotment have become central to contemporary.

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. Toussaint Louverture and the Saint Domingo Revolution, first edition, 1938. Provocative and empowering.” – The New York Times Book Review A classic and impassioned account of the Haitian Revolution-the first revolution in the Third World and the model for the liberation movements from Africa. In this book he further explored the life and leadership of Toussaint L'Ouverture, as well as the wider historical and social context of the Revolution. “One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition. James would continue to explore the subject in his classic study of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, published in 1938.

This powerful and impassioned history of the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803 is the classic account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history.

The black jacobins first edition