Rachel Douglas is lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Making the Black Jacobins: C. L. R. James and the Drama of History.

01.04.2021

Rachel Douglas

How C. L. R. James Wrote the Definitive History of the Haitian Revolution

The socialist historian C. L. R. James was born 120 years ago today. His landmark text, The Black Jacobins, is a majestic account of the Haitian Revolution and is still the authoritative history of a heroic struggle for freedom and dignity.