(noun) evasion of straightforward action or clear…
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
by
C.L.R. James
Oct. 27, 2021 - Dec. 29, 2025
(class-struggle, great-writing, group-reads)
James, C. (1938). The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Left Book Club.
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tergiversation »
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peroration »
(noun) the concluding part of a discourse and esp…
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The massacre of the whites was a tragedy; not for…
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Rochambeau drowned so many people in the Bay of L…
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Leclerc, through illness or bitterness, never wro…
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All that the old gang would do was to threaten Le…
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The dishonest political position of the French Ar…
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INTRODUCTION
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FOREWORD
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PROLOGUE
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1. The Property
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2. The Owners
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6. The Rise of Toussaint
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11. The Black Consul
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