Black Spartacus The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture - Sudhir Hazareesingh Audiobook
Language: EnglishKeywords:
Abolition
Revolution
Sudhir Hazareesingh
Toussaint Louverture
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The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791 and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world’s first independent Black state. After the abolition of slavery in 1793, Toussaint Louverture, himself a former slave, became the leader of the colony’s Black population, the commander of its republican army and eventually its governor. During the course of his extraordinary life he confronted some of the dominant forces of his age - slavery, settler colonialism, imperialism and racial hierarchy. Treacherously seized by Napoleon’s invading army in 1802, this charismatic figure ended his days, in Wordsworth’s phrase, ‘the most unhappy man of men’, imprisoned in a fortress in France.
Black Spartacus draws on a wealth of archival material, much of it overlooked by previous biographers, to follow every step of Louverture’s singular journey, from his triumphs against French, Spanish and British troops to his skilful regional diplomacy, his Machiavellian dealings with successive French colonial administrators and his bold promulgation of an autonomous constitution. Sudhir Hazareesingh shows that Louverture developed his unique vision and leadership not solely in response to imported Enlightenment ideals and revolutionary events in Europe and the Americas, but through a hybrid heritage of fraternal slave organisations, Caribbean mysticism and African political traditions. Above all, Hazareesingh retrieves Louverture’s rousing voice and force of personality, making this the most engaging, as well as the most complete, biography to date.
After his death in the French fortress, Louverture became a figure of legend, a beacon for slaves across the Atlantic and for generations of European republicans and progressive figures in the Americas. He inspired the anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass, the most eminent 19th-century African American; his emancipatory struggle was hailed by those who defied imperial and colonial rule well into the 20th. In the modern era, his life informed the French poet Aimé Césaire’s seminal idea of négritude and has been celebrated in a remarkable range of plays, songs, novels and statues. Here, in all its drama, is the epic story of the world’s first Black superhero.
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This post has 8 comments with rating of 3/5
December 17th, 2023
Never forget that mathematics is racist.
Never forget that Yakub created White People.
And never forget that Jesus was black, Mosart was black, and Cleopatra was black.
That’s raaaaaaight!
December 17th, 2023
To the above commentor.
Cleopatra was Macedonian Greek ancestry with some Persian and Sogdian Iranian descent. We are not all Jada Pinkett Smith. We do not claim Cleopatra as a black person.
December 17th, 2023
Didnt they slaughter every french mulatto and quadroon and if i remember correctly they ate the children. Comparing him to Machivalli, lol. “African political traditions” aka warlordism.
December 17th, 2023
I love his hip-hop album
December 17th, 2023
detroitvsliberia, your username alone is a refutation of everything you say, but to answer your question: no. L’ouverture did not preside over a genocide of all white and mixed-race people in Haiti. His successor, Dessalines, did try to purge the French upper classes in particular–but he was a sweet, salty nutbar and they kicked him out pretty quickly.
December 18th, 2023
Thank you
December 21st, 2023
I was waiting for this audiobook but eventually bought it on audible. It’s an impressive work and I hope it finds many interested listeners. Toussaint Louverture remains a figure of paramount importance through the ages.
December 23rd, 2023
we wuz kirk douglas
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