Lecture 4. Atlantic Slavery and the Haitian Revolution

11/08/2014 28 min
Lecture 4. Atlantic Slavery and the Haitian Revolution

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Recording curtailed (see unpublished essays above).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/