The Black Jacobins

A 1938 historical work by C.L.R. James about the Haitian Revolution, noted for fusing Marxist (Trotskyist/Leninist) analysis with African revolutionary history and for framing the revolution as a war of liberation waged by the colonized rather than a petition to colonial powers.

Claims that use this term

• The Black Jacobins fused Trotskyism with African revolutionary history.
• The Black Jacobins uniquely declared war for liberation rather than petitioning colonial powers
• The Black Jacobins encoded Trotskyism, Leninism and anti-Stalinism within its analysis.
• The Black Jacobins uniquely addressed the colonized, not the colonial powers