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Book

The Black Jacobins; Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution.

Call Number

  • 972.94 J274 (CEN)

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Edition

2d ed., rev.

Publication Information

New York : Vintage Books, [1963]

Physical Description

xi, 426 pages : map ; 19 cm

Summary

Describes the successful slave revolt of 1791 in Haiti, which eventually resulted in the establishment of the Negro state of Haiti.

Notes

"V242."

Contents

  • 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.

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