• TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE, the French Revolution and the colonial problem, translated by Kate Nash

TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE, the French Revolution and the colonial problem, translated by Kate Nash

: Césaire (A.)

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275pp., paperback, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2025

ISBN: 9781509559381

 

First published in 1960 in French as Toussaint Louverture. La révolution française et le problème colonial.

Aimé Césaire’s analysis of the context and actions of Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803), the leader of the revolution in Saint-Domingue. Louverture put the French Declaration of Human Rights into practice and turned the 1791 slave revolt into a full-scale revolution against French colonial rule that eventually led to the founding of the independent republic of Haiti in 1804.

Anti-colonial theorist, activist, writer and poet Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) was born in Basse-Pointe, Martinique. He was mayor of Fort-de-France, the capital of Martinique, from 1945 and 2001, and in 1946 became a deputy for Martinique in the French National Assembly. Co-founder with Léopold Sédar Senghor of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature, his books include Discourse on Colonialism and the plays La Tragédie du Roi Christophe and Une Saison au Congo.