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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

C.L.R. James

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This tells the story of Toussaint L'Ouverture who led the revolution of Haitian slaves to gain freedom in the 1790s and then struggled to maintain that freedom as every world power tried to undermine them. While Toussaint eventually was undone by their treachery, what he accomplished in his decade plus rein as leader is incredible.

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It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.