[PDF] The Slave King A Historical Account Of The Negroes In St Domingo eBook

Author : C.L.R. James
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0593687337

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A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history: the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803 “One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition.... Provocative and empowering.” —The New York Times Book Review The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. And it is the story of a charismatic and barely literate enslaved person named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who successfully led the Black people of San Domingo against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces—and in the process helped form the first independent post-colonial nation in the Caribbean. With a new introduction (2023) by Professor David Scott.

Author : Saint-Domingue Assemblée Générale
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781332976201

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Excerpt from A Particular Account of the Insurrection of the Negroes of St. Domingo, Begun in August, 1791: Translated From the French I i E 15 ll many calamities, is it not already evidently preved. By the whole of their tranfaeiions and by'their criminal writings? Can it be doubted, at this time, that our ruin is their work? And {hall France {fill refit-ail! The cry of indignation, due to the guilt of our enemies? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780656034642

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Excerpt from Particular Account of the Insurrection of the Negroes of St. Domingo, Begun in August, 1791: Translated From the French Being interrogated, he depofed, that all the drivers, coache men, domeftics, and confidential negroes, of the neighbouring plantations and adjacent diftriets, had formed a plot to let fire to the plantations and to murder all the whites. He marked out, as ring-leaders, feveral negroes of his mal'ter's plantation, four of Flaville's, (fituated at Jazz], three leagues from the Cape, ) and the negro Paul, eriver on Blin's planta tion atrlimbe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.