The Black Jacobins
London: Allison & Busby, 1980.
New edition. Signed by C.L.R. James and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original black cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear to binding, light soiling to textblock edge. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear, fading to spine. Afro-Trinidadian historian and activist C.L.R. James' people's history of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, a well-written Marxist reimagining of an often-ignored and denigrated revolt that inspired many later Black Power, Caribbean Studies, and anti-colonial thinkers and writers. Item #140945174
Price: $4,500
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