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Black Spartacus
The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
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"A biography of the Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture."--
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The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero.
The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's first independent black state. After the abolition of slavery in 1793, Toussaint Louverture, himself a former slave, became the leader of the colony's black population, the commander of its republican army and eventually its governor. During the course of his extraordinary life, he confronted some of the dominant forces of his ageβslavery, settler colonialism, imperialism and racial hierarchy.
Black Spartacus draws on a wealth of archival material, much of it overlooked by previous biographers, to follow every step of Louverture's singular journey. Sudhir Hazareesingh shows that Louverture developed his unique vision and leadership not solely in response to imported Enlightenment ideals and revolutionary events in Europe and the Americas, but through a hybrid heritage of fraternal slave organisations, Caribbean mysticism and African political traditions. Above all, Hazareesingh retrieves Louverture's rousing voice and force of personality, making this the most engaging, as well as the most complete, biography to date.
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Sudhir Hazareesingh's Black Spartacus is acclaimed for its engaging and meticulously researched portrayal of Toussaint Louverture, vividly capturing his role in the Haitian Revolution. Reviewers praise its narrative skill, comprehensive coverage, and timely relevance, asserting it as an authoritative and compelling biography that revitalises the complex historical figure in the context of modern issues such as Black empowerment.
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ISBN: 9780141985060
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 September 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 348g
Pages: 464
About the Author
Sudhir Hazareesingh was born in Mauritius. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford, since 1990. He has written extensively about French intellectual and cultural history; among his books are The Legend of Napoleon, In the Shadow of the General and How the French Think. He won the Prix du Memorial d'Ajaccio and the Prix de la Fondation Napoleon for the first of these, a Prix d'Histoire du Senat for the second, the Grand Prix du Livre d'Idees for the third and the Wolfson History Prize and American Library in Paris Award for the fourth. In 2020, he became a Grand Commander of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean (G.C.S.K.), the highest honour of the Republic of Mauritius.
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