Book · 1938 · Nonfiction

The Black Jacobins

Name: The Black Jacobins
Author: C.L.R. James

Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 448 pages

★ 7.0 editorial score

Enslaved people in the French colony that became Haiti rose in 1791 and defeated Napoleon's army. James wrote their revolution as world history, with Toussaint Louverture, born a slave, at its center.

Genre

History Political history

Subject

Slavery Revolution Colonialism Race

Setting

Haiti

Time

1938Depicts 18th century

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