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Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History

by C. L. R. James
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781788737906
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Verso
  • Publisher Imprint: Verso
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 272
  • Original Price: GBP 14.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 367 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir, African American & Black, and Caribbean & West Indies / General

Longlisted for the American Library in Paris Book Award

Winner of the American Book Award

Winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award

PERHAPS THE GREATEST VICTORY OF THE OPPRESSED OVER THEIR OPPRESSORS IN ALL HISTORY

The end of slavery started in what was then San Domingo. In 1791, the enslaved people of the most prized French sugar plantation colony revolted against their masters. For over twelve years, against a backdrop of the French Revolution, they fought an epic black liberation struggle for control of the island. Theirs was the first and only successful slave revolution. It was the creation of Haiti as a nation, the first independent black republic outside of Africa, and an international inspiration to the persecuted and enslaved. This is the impassioned and beautifully drawn story of the Haitian Revolution and its incredible leader: Toussaint Louverture.

The text of this graphic novel is a play by C. L. R. James that opened in London in 1936 with Paul Robeson in the title role. For the first time, black actors appeared on the British stage in a work by a black playwright. The script had been lost for almost seventy years when a draft copy was discovered among James's archives. Now this extraordinary drama has been reimagined by artists Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee.

The polymath intellectual and Trinidadian revolutionary C. L. R. James is perhaps best known asthe author of the seminal history of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, published in 1938.

Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee are artists based in the UK.

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