Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Toussaint Unchained: c.1743-91
2. Making an Opening to Liberty: 1791-93
3. Black Jacobin Ascending: 1793-98
4. The Black Robespierre: 1798-1802
5. The Harder They Come, The Harder They Fall...: 1801-03
6. ...One and All: 1804-
Notes
Index
Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French, University of
Liverpool. He is co-author of Toussaint
Louverture (Pluto, 2017), author of Victor Segalen
and the Aesthetics of Diversity and Travel in
Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures (Oxford
University Press 2005) and co-editor of The Black Jacobins
Reader (Duke University Press, 2017).
Christian Hogsbjerg is a historian who works for the Centre for
African Studies at the University of Leeds. He is author of C.L.R.
James in Imperial Britain (Duke University Press, 2014), co-author
of Toussaint Louverture (Pluto, 2017) and editor of Toussaint
Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in
History, James's 1934 play about the Haitian Revolution, and World
Revolution 1917-1936, James's 1937 history of the Communist
International and co-editor of The Black Jacobins Reader (Duke
University Press, 2017).
'A spirited, nuanced profile of this great revolutionary leader.
The book provides a fascinating analysis of the range of reactions
to Toussaint, from Wordsworth in 1802 to contemporary comic books
and rap'
*Alyssa Sepinwall, Professor of History, California State
University San Marcos*
'Documents his political life while mapping one stage of the dual
revolution, presenting Toussaint as a black Jacobin revolutionary.
An important text'
*Anthony Bogues, Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical
Theory, Brown University*
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