The Black Jacobins
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What’s it about?
How enslaved people in Saint-Domingue forged the only successful slave revolt in history, creating the first black republic and forcing the Enlightenment to confront its deepest contradiction.
You’ll learn
- How the Haitian Revolution reshaped world history
- Why Toussaint Louverture was a tragic genius
- How the enslaved became architects of their own freedom
- The revolutionary power of universal human rights