Tag: Louverture

Toussaint Louverture The French Revolution and the Colonial Problem


Free Download Toussaint Louverture: The French Revolution and the Colonial Problem (Critical South) by Aimé Césaire, translated by Kate Nash
English | November 18, 2024 | ISBN: 150955937X, 1509559388 | True PDF | 297 pages | 11 MB
This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire’s account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in Saint-Domingue – a slave revolt against French colonial rule that led to the founding of the independent republic of Haiti. Saint-Domingue was the first country in modern times to confront the colonial question in practice and in all its complexity.

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Free and French in the Caribbean Toussaint Louverture, Aimé Césaire, and Narratives of Loyal Opposition


Free Download Free and French in the Caribbean: Toussaint Louverture, Aimé Césaire, and Narratives of Loyal Opposition (Blacks in the Diaspora) by John Patrick Walsh
English | April 12, 2013 | ISBN: 0253006279, 0253006309 | True EPUB | 206 pages | 2.3 MB
In Free and French in the Caribbean, John Patrick Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the decolonializing of the French Caribbean: the revolution that freed the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1803 and the departmentalization of Martinique and other French colonies in 1946.

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