Black Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
Hazareesingh, Sudhir2020
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Total copies: 3
The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's first independent black state. After the abolition of slavery in 1793, Toussaint Louverture, himself a former slave, became the leader of the colony's black population, the commander of its republican army and eventually its governor. During the course of his extraordinary life, he confronted (and for a time overcame) some of the dominant forces of his age - slavery, settler colonialism, imperialism and racial hierarchy. Treacherously seized by Napoleon's invading army in 1802, this charismatic figure ended his days, in Wordsworth's phrase, 'the most unhappy man of men', imprisoned in a fortress in France.
Main title:
Black Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture / Sudhir Hazareesingh.
Author:
Imprint:
UK : Allen Lane, 2020.
Collation:
xxvi, 427 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241293812 (hbk)0241293812 (hbk)9780241293829 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
B TOU972.9403
LC class:
F1923
Language:
English
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BRN:
352641