This month marks the 230th anniversary of the beginning of the Haitian Revolution. In August 1791 ... argued in the New York Review of Books that the French military expedition “was decimated ...

BOOKS IN REVIEW The Common Wind; Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution By Julius S. Scott Buy this book Along with the popularity of the subaltern school in South Asian ...

Books are what drew me to Haiti ... $ 15.12) Explains the Haitian revolution of 1791, why it happened and who its major protagonists were. 3. The Uses of Haiti, by Paul Farmer, (1994, Common ...

George Lamming "The Black Jacobins, with its unforgettable story of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, is one of the great books of the twentieth century. The Black Jacobins Reader ...

Contemporary paintings celebrate the brave women who fought fiercely alongside the men in the Haitian revolution of the ... accounts and in CLR James's book The Black Jacobins, as having been ...

click image for close-up Although there is a large body of visual materials depicting the Haitian ... of the revolution. The first known representations of Toussaint were included in a book ...

The book, which was written in 1938 by the Afro-Trinidadian historian, charts the history of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804. The series will start with the first slave revolt of 1791 and end ...

Find Your Next Book Thrillers N.Y.C. Literary Guide Nonfiction ... Jacobins” (1938), still the seminal history of the Haitian Revolution — had a view of Manhattan’s glittering skyline.

The revolt, which transformed itself into the Haitian Revolution, began 230 years ... Despite changes like the outlawing of the whip and introduction of wages for workers, little seemed different ...

Julia Gaffield is associate professor of history at Georgia State University and is the author of “Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution” (UNC Press ...