Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
The definitive modern hardback biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture, accompanied with a bottle of red wine.
The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's first independent black state. After the abolition of slavery in 1793, Toussaint Louverture, himself a former slave, became the leader of the colony's black population, the commander of its republican army and eventually its governor. During the course of his extraordinary life he confronted some of the dominant forces of his age - slavery, settler colonialism, imperialism and racial hierarchy. Treacherously seized by Napoleon's invading army in 1802, this charismatic figure ended his days, in Wordsworth's phrase, 'the most unhappy man of men', imprisoned in a fortress in France.
Genre: Historical events & Biography
Gift includes: Hardback book and a bottle of wine. Wine brand may vary.
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