The Black Jacobins
 The Black Jacobins is the authoritative history of the Haitian Revolution of 1794, the first revolution in the Third World. "The prospect of a Black Republic is equally disturbing to the Spanish, the English and the Americans. Jefferson has promised that on the instant the French army has arrived [in Haiti] all measures will be taken to starve Toussaint and rid us of these gilded Negroes, and we will have nothing more to wish for." -- Napoleon How did the Haitian slaves break free from their bondage and create the first Black Republic, while facing some of the largest armies ever assembled by Europe? And what impact did their victories have on ending slavery? These questions and others are addressed in C.L.R. James' classic work. A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the black people of San Domingo in a successful struggle against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces and in the process helped form the first independent nation in the Caribbean.
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