The Black Jacobins uniquely declared war for liberation rather than petitioning colonial powers

Evidence

Nevertheless, James’s intervention had been significant. He had made a singular contribution to radical Black historiography when he and his comrades in the IASB were mapping out their contending positions in the last years of the third, and during the fourth decade of the century. It was then that Padmore had written How Britain Rules Africa, Eric Williams his The Negro in the Caribbean, Kenyatta his Kenya: Land of Conflict, and James The Black Jacobins. The first three had proposed national independence for African peoples but were addressed to the colonial powers. The fourth had not appealed. Instead, it was a declaration of war for liberation. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1283

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior reading on petitions vs. seizure in institutions literature — the same distinction between appealing to power and seizing it.