Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions

Author: Christian Høgsbjerg, Charles Forsdick

publisher name: Pluto Press

ISBN: 9780745335148

£12.99

book description

The biography you mentioned, written by Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg and published by Pluto Press, explores the fascinating life of Toussaint Louverture through the prism of his radical politics. Toussaint Louverture led the only successful slave revolt in history, breaking free from slavery and leading an army of freed African slaves to victory against the professional armies of France, Spain, and Britain in the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804.