James's achievement and his own rethinkings over time. The Black Jacobins Reader provides us with a rich selection of reflections on C. "The Black Jacobins, with its unforgettable story of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, is one of the great books of the twentieth century. The nineteenth century had judged it inconceivable and ever since it has survived a universal silence." - George Lamming It was the first and only example in modern history of a successful slave revolt when a population of enslaved Africans defeated three European armies and converted a slave plantation into the Independent Republic of Haiti. Some eighty years after its first publication, readers of different generations and across a diversity of national origins document their admiration of the depth and spontaneity of James's analytical interpretation of the Haitian Revolution. James and the prophetic grandeur of his great classic, The Black Jacobins. "This is the most authoritative confirmation to date of the intellectual stature of C.
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