The Black Jacobins

The Black Jacobins

"The Black Jacobins" is a historical account of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803 written by the Afro-Trinidadian writer and historian C.L.R. James in 1938. First published by Secker and Warburg, James's book details the rise of former slave Toussaint L'Ouverture to lead the revolution and views the events from varying perspectives, notably exploring anti-colonialist and Marxist paradigms. The work also explores the poor economic realities of the Caister Caribbean economy during the era and the region's inextricable links with Europe, Africa and the Americas. It remains a key academic text on the history of the Caribbean.

Though it was published in 1938, as it recounted a history of Black revolution, the text was ignored by much of white scholarship until the 1970's, particularly by the French. [cite book | author = Michel-Rolph Trouillot | title = Silencing the Past | publisher = Beacon Press | year = 1995 ] [cite journal | author = Supriya Nair | title = The Caribbean Unbound: Cross Atlantic Discourses on Slavery and Race | journal = American Literary History | year = 2002 |issue=14(3) |pages=566–579 ]

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* [http://the.arc.co.uk/arm/propertyCLR.html Extract from The Black Jacobins]
* [http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/blackjacobins.html The Black Jacobins]
* [http://www.londonsocialisthistorians.org/messageboard/showthread.php?p=2349#post2349 Conference in London in February 2008 to mark 'Seventy years of The Black Jacobins'] organised by the London Socialist Historians Group


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