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Black Spartacus
- The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
- De: Sudhir Hazareesingh
- Narrado por: Ben Arogundade
- Duración: 17 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Among the defining figures of the Age of Revolution, Toussaint Louverture is the most enigmatic. Though the Haitian revolutionary’s image has multiplied across the globe—appearing on banknotes and in bronze, on T-shirts and in film—the only definitive portrait executed in his lifetime has been lost. Well versed in the work of everyone from Machiavelli to Rousseau, he was nonetheless dismissed by Thomas Jefferson as a “cannibal.” A Caribbean acolyte of the European Enlightenment, Toussaint nurtured a class of black Catholic clergymen who became one of the pillars of his rule.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Liberator of Haiti and a lamp to the world
- De Mike en 11-08-20
- Black Spartacus
- The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
- De: Sudhir Hazareesingh
- Narrado por: Ben Arogundade
A fresh perspective
Revisado: 01-29-25
For anyone who has already read C. L. R James' Black Jacobins, it's definitely worth reading Hazareesingh's retelling of Toussaint's life, which looks at it with a fresh lens, doesn't have the same Marxist bent James' has, and deals with Toussaint's flaws and mistakes much more honestly.
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