The Black Jacobins : Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
(1963)
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Vintage book
#V-242
Call Numbers:
Local History/Genealogy/972.85/JAMES,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Vintage Books, [©1963]
EDITION
Second edition, revised
DESCRIPTION
xi, 426 pages : map ; 19 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780679724674, 0394702425, 9780394702421, 0679724672, 9780679724674
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
Vintage book #V-242
NOTES
"V242."
The property -- The owners -- Parliament and property -- The San Domingo masses begin -- And the Paris masses complete -- The rise of Toussaint -- The mulattoes try and fail -- The white slave-owners again -- The expulsion of the British -- Toussaint seizes the power -- The black consul -- The bourgeoisie prepares to restore slavery -- The war of independence
Describes the successful slave revolt of 1791 in Haiti, which eventually resulted in the establishment of the Negro state of Haiti
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