Black Spartacus, Sudhir Hazareesingh Allen Lane, £25 This is a gripping biographical account of Toussaint Louverture (1743-1804), the greatest black revolutionary leader emerging within the age of bourgeois revolutions, who “took from the Enlightenment, what the Enlightenment never dreamt of”. Hazareesingh, an Oxford scholar, has succeeded in enriching the epic story of the self-emancipation of...
09 November 2020
