Lecture 4. Atlantic Slavery and the Haitian Revolution

Recording curtailed (see unpublished essays above). C L R James synthesizes Western Marxism and postcolonial theory. His history of the Haitian revolution brought it back into world history and inspired his own vision of the anti-colonial and world revolutions. (Recording curtailed) C L R James The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo revolution (second edition 1963) http://thememorybank.co.uk/2010/03/20/waiting-for-emancipation-slavery-and-freedom-in-west-africa/ http://thememorybank.co.uk/2011/02/07/clr-james-and-the-idea-of-an-african-revolution/