BLACK JOCOBINS V242

James, C.L.R.

ISBN 10: 0394702425 / ISBN 13: 9780394702421

Published by Vintage, 1963

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: BLACK JOCOBINS V242
• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication Date: 1963
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394702425
• ISBN 13: 9780394702421
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.