THE BLACK JACOBINS

HISTORY
This is the one book book that presents the most revealing light on the historical background to the present drama of Haiti.

The
BLACK JACOBINS
by
C.L.R. JAMES

“Brilliantly conceived and executed, throwing upon the historic screen a mass of dramatic figures, lurid scenes, fantastíc happenings, the absorbing narrative never departs from its rigid faithfulness to method and documenta-
tion, presenting the actions of individuals and masses and clarifying social and political events in their complex interrelations with the age and correlating them with their counterparts of todày. Yet the purely human quality is not slighted.”

-Books

“Mr. James is not afraid to touch his pen with the flame of ardent personal feeling – a sense of justice, love of freedom, admiration for heroism, hatred for tyranny-and his detailed, richly documented and dramatically written book holds a deep and lasting interest.” ,

-The New York Times

“A vivid account of a revolution which greatly influenced U.S. history before the Cívil War.” .’ ,

-Time