The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)

The black Plato of our generation ... the founding father of African emancipation. * The Times *
Contains some of the finest and most deeply felt polemical writing against slavery and racism ever to be published. * Time Out *
The Black Jacobins is one of the great books of the twentieth century ... one that wrote the history of a people supposedly without history. -- Catherine Hall
James is, quite simply, the outstanding West Indian of the twentieth century. -- Caryl Phillips
A starting point and an intellectual inspiration ... a classic of masterly historical writing. -- James Walvin
James is not afraid to touch his pen with the flame of ardent personal feeling - a sense of justice, love of freedom, admiration for heroism, hatred for tyranny - and his detailed, richly documented and dramatically written book holds a deep and lasting interest. -- New York Times