C. L. R. James - The Black Jacobins online_store paperback or otherwise

paperback or otherwise

tampered with the telegraph wires leading out of Washington

the illegitimate son of a minor chieftain

First appearance in book form (orig

With no warning of the tension and shock to come

C. L. R. James - The Black Jacobins online_store paperback or otherwiseThe 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. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved