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2 unusual facts about The Black Jacobins


The Black Jacobins

In 1934, James wrote a play about the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint Louverture: The story of the only successful slave revolt in history that was performed in 1936 at London's Westminster Theatre with Paul Robeson in the title role.

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For example, James writes skeptically of British efforts to suppress the slave trade by using William Wilberforce as a figurehead.



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