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On Toussaint L'Ouverture.

CLR James’s electrifying 1938 history of the 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, has long been a staple of many radicals’ libraries. But we now know a lot more about the life of the Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint L’Ouverture. How does this new knowledge impact our understanding of the Haitian Revolution, and on revolution in general? Sudhir Hazeeresingh, the author of a gripping new biography based on new archival research, ‘Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, talks with us about about revolutionary leadership and Atlantic history.

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Sam

This is woke identitarian nonsense - the type of stuff that gets you a glowing write-up by in The Guardian by a non-specialist. Read the primary sources Hazareesingh cites in his book and see if you come away with such a rosy picture of Louverture.

Jeremy C-M

I feel this guy's pain re: living in a society without any popular memory of revolution. It warps the Canadian psyche tbh. Imagine not even having a bourgeois revolution to draw on. 😭

skipmur

Big respect for throwing in the Swans tune at the end