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James rewrote and rethought The Black Jacobins over the course of his life.

“Rachel Douglas takes readers on a fascinating journey as she details how C. Her extraordinary book makes a pivotal contribution to our understanding of James's masterpiece and is essential reading for all those engaged with understanding the Haitian Revolution and the decisive place of The Black Jacobins in its interpretation.” - Nick Nesbitt, author of Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant James's complex and ever-evolving Marxism, taking seriously his own estimation of his intellectual accomplishments. “Among Rachel Douglas's great accomplishments is her analysis of The Black Jacobins as the keystone in the larger arc of C. Labor and Working-Class History Association.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.Author Resources from University Presses.

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It remains one of the essential texts for understanding the Caribbean - and the region's inextricable links with Europe, Africa and the Americas. Explicitly written as part of the fight to end colonialism in Africa, The Black Jacobins put the slaves themselves centre stage, boldly forging their own destiny against nearly impossible odds. He explores the appalling economic realities of the Caribbean economy, the roots of the world's only successful slave revolt and the utterly extraordinary former slave - Toussaint L'Ouverture - who led them.

James illuminates these epoch-making events. In this outstanding example of vivid, committed and empathetic historical analysis, C. Only three years later, the British and Americans ended the Atlantic slave trade. Despite invasion by a series of British, Spanish and Napoleonic armies, their twelve-year struggle led to the creation of Haiti, the first independent black republic outside Africa. In 1791, inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the slaves of San Domingo rose in revolt.