The Black Jacobins

Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

This historical study examines the Haitian Revolution led by Toussaint Louverture through a Marxist and anti-colonial framework. It details how enslaved people in the French colony of Saint-Domingue organized and overthrew the plantation economy and colonial rule. The text analyzes the economic and political forces of the late eighteenth century that shaped the Caribbean uprising and its global repercussions.

by C. L. R. James

Allison & Busby · First published 1938 · 426 pages