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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: San Domingo’s “free” population was made up of competing social classes throughout the colony.
Chapter 3: Although San Domingo’s slaves frequently fought against the system, they lacked the leadership they needed to prevail and succeed.
Chapter 4: The ideals of the French Revolution—liberté, égalité and fraternité—spread to San Domingo explosively with far-reaching impact.
Chapter 5: In Toussaint L’Ouverture, the slaves found a leader fit to challenge the slave system at last decisively.
Chapter 6: In 1791, San Domingo’s slaves revolted, and Toussaint L’Ouverture soon emerged among their leaders as a chief.
Chapter 7: Toussaint L’Ouverture never sacrificed his goal: complete abolition of slavery in San Domingo forever.
Chapter 8: Toussaint L’Ouverture quickly rose as San Domingo’s foremost political figure.
Chapter 9: Toussaint L’Ouverture sought to build a prosperous, deeply cultured society across San Domingo enduring.
Chapter 10: Toussaint L’Ouverture’s push for a multiracial San Domingo estranged some black supporters within his loyal base deeply.
Chapter 11: Under Napoleon, the French state invaded San Domingo, with disastrous results for Toussaint L’Ouverture.
Chapter 12: Toussaint’s arrest and France’s bid to restore slavery pushed San Domingo’s people to declare independence as a free nation.
Chapter 13: The slave uprising arose from French Revolutionary ideas and Toussaint L’Ouverture’s singular leadership skills combined to shape historic change globally.
Description
The Black Jacobins (1938) traces the remarkable history of the revolution in the French colony of San Domingo (modern day Haiti). It describes the events that helped the revolution become the first successful slave rebellion in history.
In particular, The Black Jacobins views the events through the prism of the revolution’s greatest figure, Toussaint L’Ouverture. It shows how he, a former slave who was inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, successfully defeated the European empires and helped to destroy the brutal practice of slavery in San Domingo.
Who Should Listen
- Students of history and postcolonial studies
- Anyone who wants to understand why people revolt
- Anyone interested in how political ideas can change the world