Used Book in Good Condition</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World.</b><br><br>This powerful?? intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803?? a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo?? a place where the brutality of master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L'Ouverture?? who led the black people of San Domingo in a successful struggle against successive invasions by overwhelming French?? Spanish?? and English forces and in the process helped form the first independent nation in the Caribbean.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>In 1789 the French colony of Saint Domingue was the most profitable real estate in the world. These profits came at a price: while its sugar plantations supplied two-thirds of France's overseas trade?? they also stimulated the gr"ndividual market for the slave trade. The slaves were brutally treated and died in great numbers?? prompting a never-ending influx of new slaves.<p>  The French Revolution sent waves all the way across the Atlantic?? dividing the colony's white population in 1791. The elites remained royalist?? while the bourgeoisie embraced the revolutionary ideals. The slaves seized the moment and in the confusion rebelled en masse against their owners. The Haitian Slave Revolt had begun. When it ended in 1803?? Saint Domingue had become Haiti?? the first independent nation in the Caribbean.<p>  C.L.R. James tells the story o