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 African Diaspora Studies at the University of Virginia 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). She recently collaborated with Ted-Ed to produce a short animated film, The First and Last King of Haiti. 