{"product_id":"black-spartacus-the-epic-life-of-toussaint-louverture-paperback","title":"Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSudhir Hazareesingh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2021 Wolfson History Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBlack Spartacus\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely to have for a long time . . . An extraordinarily gripping read.\" --David A. Bell, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA new interpretation of the life of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, while his supporters also believed he communicated with \u003ci\u003evodou\u003c\/i\u003e spirits. And for a leader who once summed up his modus operandi with the phrase \"Say little but do as much as possible,\" he was a prolific and indefatigable correspondent, famous for exhausting the five secretaries he maintained, simultaneously, at the height of his power in the 1790s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Employing groundbreaking archival research and a keen interpretive lens, Sudhir Hazareesingh restores Toussaint to his full complexity in \u003ci\u003eBlack Spartacus\u003c\/i\u003e. At a time when his subject has, variously, been reduced to little more than a one-dimensional icon of liberation or criticized for his personal failings--his white mistresses, his early ownership of slaves, his authoritarianism --Hazareesingh proposes a new conception of Toussaint's understanding of himself and his role in the Atlantic world of the late eighteenth century. \u003ci\u003eBlack Spartacus \u003c\/i\u003eis a work of both biography and intellectual history, rich with insights into Toussaint's fundamental hybridity--his ability to unite European, African, and Caribbean traditions in the service of his revolutionary aims. Hazareesingh offers a new and resonant interpretation of Toussaint's racial politics, showing how he used Enlightenment ideas to argue for the equal dignity of all human beings while simultaneously insisting on his own world-historical importance and the universal pertinence of blackness--a message which chimed particularly powerfully among African Americans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eBlack Spartacus\u003c\/i\u003e offers a vigorous argument in favor of \"getting back to Toussaint\"--a call to take Haiti's founding father seriously on his own terms, and to honor his role in shaping the postcolonial world to come. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist for the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePEN \/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed a best book of the year by the \u003ci\u003eThe Economist \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSudhir Hazareesingh\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Mauritius. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford, since 1990. He has written extensively about French intellectual and cultural history, and among his books are \u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Napoleon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of the General\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHow the French Think\u003c\/i\u003e. He won the Prix du Mémorial d'Ajaccio and the Prix de la Fondation Napoléon for the first of these, a Prix d'Histoire du Sénat for the second, and the Grand Prix du Livre d'Idées for the third.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 07, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978528981293,"sku":"9781250800053","price":22.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/WWRIZTdOaWlKc3BqWERoSTZmWDRIUT09.webp?v=1775805658","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/black-spartacus-the-epic-life-of-toussaint-louverture-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}