A review by danhf
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James

5.0

A deceptively complicated work of historiography that turns Haiti's war of Black liberation into an electrifying pageturner. Both exciting and saddening to read, the intense brutality of the truly epic last chapter will haunt me for a while, while the lessons it teaches about the lengths to which powerful white people will go to maintain their material advantage is as relevant today as it ever has been.