...The Haitian Revolution<subtitle>Histories and Philosophies</subtitle> Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal contributes this section with a text on “The Impact of C. L. R. James’s Black Jacobins .” He describes the inspiration that he drew from reading the work. Mumia Abu-Jamal outlines...

... 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...

... 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...

... In this section, Matthew Quest explores a tension in James’s historical philosophy. James has often been understood as seeking to capture the changing forms of thought and action, spontaneity and organization, in the Haitian revolutionary movement. But was black autonomy secured by the nation...

... In this chapter, Rachel Douglas explores James’s dramatic representations of the Haitian Revolution from Toussaint Louverture in 1936 to The Black Jacobins play of 1967. Making drama out of history enabled James to go furthest in rewriting the Haitian Revolution from below, through...