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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679724672/104-2506668-6617535?v=glance&n=283155
In 1789 the French colony of Saint Domingue was the most profitable real estate in the world. These profits came at a price: while its sugar plantations supplied two-thirds of France's overseas trade, they also stimulated the greatest individual market for the slave trade. The slaves were brutally treated and died in great numbers, prompting a never-ending influx of new slaves. The French Revolution sent waves all the way across the Atlantic, dividing the colony's white population in 1791. The elites remained royalist, while the bourgeoisie embraced the revolutionary ideals. The slaves seized the moment and in the confusion rebelled en masse against their owners. The Haitian Slave Revolt had begun. When it ended in 1803, Saint Domingue had become Haiti, the first independent nation in the Caribbean.
"Then he demonstrates the contradictions in Western Revolutionary thought which used emancipatory language but refused to address the issue of colonial slavery."
http://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Slavery/dp/0807844888/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b/104-2506668-6617535?ie=UTF8
Williams' ground breaking contirbution was to link all of this together, and argue that without the immoral slave trade, the industrial revolution, and thus capitalism as we know it, would not have happened.
Necessary Black Female reading......
:This book does an excellent job of documenting the lives of African American women from slavery to the 20th century. It gives a portrayal of
their strong abilities to move forward, their religious faith, and their degree of
hope and self-pridein the meantime. I sincerely recommend this book to everyone in hopes that it will serve as a guide in their present lives."
On this date in 1733 (Nov 1st) one of the first successful African slave rebellions took place.
Enslaved Africans on the island of St. John (today a part of the United States Virgin Islands) defeated the Danish army, taking over the island and flying their own flag.
The insurrection, the first successful one in the New World, lasted six months; the Africans finally were defeated by troops sent by other European colonies in the region as reinforcements for the defeated Danish troops.
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Joseph Cinquez (or Cinque) was one of a group of Africans from Sierra Leone who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery. In July 1839, Cinquez led a revolt on the slave ship Amistad, off Cuba. The slaves took control of the ship and killed the crew, but were soon captured and charged with piracy. Their subsequent trials in New Haven, Connecticut, were causes celebres, pitting abolitionists against President Martin Van Buren's administration. In March 1841, the Supreme Court upheld the lower court's decision to return Cinquez and his surviving friends to Africa. John Quincy Adams had represented the Africans before the Supreme Court, and they were set free largely as a result of his eloquent pleading. "Joseph Cinquez, the brave Congolese Chief, who prefers death to Slavery, and who now lies in jail..." James or Isaac Sheffield, Illustrator New York: Moses Beach, 1839 Lithograph
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This broadside shows Anthony Burns, whose arrest and trial under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 touched off riots and protests by abolitionists and citizens of Boston in the spring of 1854. A bust portrait of the twenty-four-year-old Burns is surrounded by scenes from his life. These include the sale of the young Burns at auction, his escape from Richmond, Virginia, his arrest in Boston, his trial, and his departure from Boston escorted by armed marshals, to be returned to slavery in Virginia. The Burns case became a rallying point for opponents of slavery, who produced this broadside to remember his unjust treatment. "Anthony Burns" Boston: R.M. Edwards, 1855 Broadside
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Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology (Paperback)
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Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C to 2000 A.D. (Paperback)
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Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery (Paperback)
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