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22 de ago. de 2023 · Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book ReviewThe Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba.
The Black Jacobins Yet Toussaint, Jean Francois, and Biassou did not rally to Sonthanax and the French Republic. Instead they allied themselves with monarchist and pro-slavery Spain, which hoped to use them as proxies bought with promises of individual liberty to conquer the colony.
2 de mai. de 2016 · As a performative statement, a locution that attempts shifting our relation to the world, Patterson’s naming The Black Jacobins a “classic” raises important political questions about canon formation, economies of knowledge, and institutional location. It makes sense that Patterson, publishing in a Caribbean journal in 1970, would so ...
31 de mai. de 2021 · Deixe-me começar dizendo o quanto eu amei Making the Black Jacobins. De alguma forma, seu livro ajuda os leitores a entender melhor certas questões que C.R.L James deixou em aberto ou que pareciam um pouco enigmáticas. Por exemplo, no prefácio da edição de 1938, quando James escreve: “No entanto, Toussaint não fez a revolução.
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James gave three lectures: “How I wrote The Black Jacobins,” “The Black Jacobins and Black Reconstruction: A Comparative Analysis,” and “How I would Rewrite The Black Jacobins.” Each of the lectures is a tour-de-force of originality, erudition, and lucidity, not least James’s deeply appreciative reflections on W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1935 account of post-slavery America.
First published in 1938, C.L.R. James’s The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution examines the Haitian Revolution of 1791 to 1804, with emphasis on the role of slave-turned-commander Toussaint L’Ouverture. As a historical treatise, the book aims to unfold the inner workings of the Revolution, with the ...
