The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution Free Audiobook Download by C.L.R. James

In this book, C.L.R. James tells the story of Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution that he led in Haiti from 1794 to 1803, which has been called "the most important event in Western history since the French Revolution."

Toussaint L'Ouverture is a man who has been both a revolutionary and a saint. He was the first great slave leader of Haiti and the initiator of the San Domingo Revolution which set the stage for a revolution in France and changed the course of human history.

A history of the Haitian Revolution, the book begins by describing the French Revolution and how its arrival in San Domingo led to chaos. The Black Jacobins aims to provide a deeper understanding and understanding of Toussaint L'Ouverture's role in the revolution, his exile in France and America, and his eventual return to San Domingo. C.L.R. James provides a fascinating account of how black revolutionary leaders from around the world were involved with San Domingo as social change agents

The Black Jacobins is one of the most important works in the history of revolutionary socialism. The book traces the struggle for power and freedom by the Haitian slave army, led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, from its beginnings in 1790 to its ultimate victory over Napoleon Bonaparte's French Empire in 1804.

The Black Jacobins is a classic history of the years leading up to and following the 1804 San Domingo Revolution, written by C.L.R. James, a Trinidadian historian and Marxist scholar in the mid-20th century. The book chronicles how French planters and Black slaves on Saint Domingo led a revolution against their Western overlords, which was one of the first successful slave rebellions in history.

C.L.R. James was a communist and Marxist scholar who taught at Harvard University in the early 20th century and wrote extensively on socialism, colonialism, race, slavery, and history. His most famous work is "The Black Jacobins" that chronicles the Haitian Revolution in which he places Toussaint L'Ouverture- an African revolutionary hero in the novel- front and center of the account of this historical event. This audiobook starts with the story of L'Ouverture's birth to a father who had been born into slavery but fought hard for his freedom and eventually became a wealthy landowner on a plantation near Cap Français in Haiti. L'Ouverture was born into an intellectual family