The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Second Edition Revised)

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A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World.This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the black people of San Domingo in a successful struggle against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces and in the process helped form the first independent nation in the Caribbean. Front/Back Cover ......Page 1 Front Matter ......Page 2 Preface to the Vintage Edition ......Page 4 Preface to the First Edition ......Page 5 Contents ......Page 7 Prologue ......Page 8 1. The Property ......Page 10 2. The Owners ......Page 20 3. Parliament and Property ......Page 38 4. The San Domingo Masses Begin ......Page 49 5. And the Paris Masses Complete ......Page 66 6. The Rise of Toussaint ......Page 79 7. The Mullattoes Try and Fail ......Page 88 8. The White Slave-Owners Again ......Page 94 9. The Expulsion of the British ......Page 106 10. Toussaint Seizes the Power ......Page 119 11. The Black Consul ......Page 127 12. The Bourgeoisie Prepares to Restore Slavery ......Page 141 13. The War of Independence ......Page 151 Bibliography ......Page 196 Appendix: From Toussaint L'Ouverture to Fidel Castro ......Page 202 Index ......Page 216 About the Author ......Page 220