Sudhir Hazareesingh

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...

A warm yet incisive exploration of the French intellectual tradition, and its exceptional place in a nation's identity and lifestyle. Winner of the Grand Prix du Livre d'Idées The French—serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and mystical, pessimistic, pleasure-loving—and perhaps more than any other people, intellectual. This original and entertaining book shows exactly what makes the French so ......

A revelatory history of enslaved people's resistance to Atlantic slavery. The ending of the slave trade and abolition of slavery by European powers during the 19th century is generally told as the work of enlightened liberals fighting against entrenched slaving interests in Africa, the Caribbean, and European capitals. Sudhir Hazareesingh here turns this narrative on its head, showing how the...