If he had to write The Black Jacobins again, C. L. R. James “would only give Toussaint [Louverture] a walk-on part.”
Marlene L. Daut
Marlene L. Daut is Professor of French and African American Studies at Yale University and author of Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789–1865 (Liverpool University Press, 2015). Her biography of Henry Christophe, The First and Last King of Haiti, is forthcoming with Knopf/Pantheon. 