
The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James and Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
Rare is the book of history that remains in print over eighty years later, but James’s ground-breaking account of the Haitian Revolution—written in 1938, revised in 1962, and meant to inspire and celebrate the revolutions of the oppressed in both moments—has become a part of history itself. And the book itself remains a marvelously readable …