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2 unusual facts about The Black Jacobins


The Black Jacobins

In 1934, James wrote a play about the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint Louverture: The story of the only successful slave revolt in history that was performed in 1936 at London's Westminster Theatre with Paul Robeson in the title role.

For example, James writes skeptically of British efforts to suppress the slave trade by using William Wilberforce as a figurehead.



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