The Black Jacobins

Name: The Black Jacobins
Author: C.L.R. James

by C.L.R. James

History of Haitian Revolution and liberation of enslaved people

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C.L.R. James

James's The Black Jacobins is the most brilliant history of the Haitian Revolution and a founding text of postcolonial thought. His Beyond a Boundary is widely considered the greatest book ever written about cricket and colonial society.

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