Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool.
Christian Høgsbjerg is Teaching Fellow in Caribbean History at University College London's Institute of the Americas.
Robert A. Hill is Research Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool.
Christian Høgsbjerg is Teaching Fellow in Caribbean History at University College London's Institute of the Americas.
Robert A. Hill is Research Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Black Jacobins and the Long Haitian Revolution: Archives, History, and the Writing of Revolution
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Published:January 2017
Anthony Bogues, 2017. "The Black Jacobins and the Long Haitian Revolution: Archives, History, and the Writing of Revolution", The Black Jacobins Reader, Charles Forsdick, Christian Høgsbjerg
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In this chapter, Matthew J. Smith asks what was it about C. L. R. James’s intellectual environment in Trinidad that drove his conviction to pursue a study of the Haitian Revolution so passionately? What was James’s knowledge about that event at that point in his life, and what purpose did that history serve for him? This chapter argues that the answers to these questions can be found by looking outside of The Black Jacobins and James and exploring a wider intellectual tradition in the colonial British West Indies which James was connected to long before he left Trinidad.
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