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October 30 NYC Book Party for Confronting Black Jacobins

Confronting Black Jacobins by Gerald Horne

Come to a book party celebrating the launch of Gerald Horne’s Confronting Black Jacobins
forthcoming from Monthly Review Press

Tamiment Library, New York University
Friday, October 30, 6-8 pm
70 Washington Square South, 10th floor
New York City

Drawing upon a rich collection of archival and other primary source materials, Horne deftly weaves together a disparate array of voices—world leaders and diplomats, slaveholders, white abolitionists, and the freedom fighters he terms Black Jacobins. Horne at once illuminates the tangled conflicts of the colonial powers, the commercial interests and imperial ambitions of U.S. elites, and the brutality and tenacity of the American slaveholding class, while never losing sight of the freedom struggles of Africans both on the island and on the mainland, which sought the fulfillment of the emancipatory promise of 18th century republicanism.

Gerald Horne, progressive-activist historian, demonstrates a masterful grasp of his discipline with illuminating research and inviting writing about influential voices and events that coalesce into the global watershed victory of the Haitian Revolution. He demystifies and reveals History as a concentrated storyline of social struggles and transformative results grounded in ethical visions defined by humanity and inhumanity – and the Haitian Revolution as standard-bearer of just progressive, social, and political movements looming well into the 21st Century.

—Danny Glover, citizen-artist, actor

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