@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt2tvmzn.7, ISBN = {9781578063642}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2tvmzn.7}, abstract = {“There is no drama like the drama of history” wrote James in his historical study of the Haitian Revolution,The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution(1938). Indeed, between 1792 and 1804, the French Caribbean colony of San Domingo accomplished what was to be the only successful slave rebellion in the history of the New World by defeating Napoleon, the British, and the Spanish. (Upon their victory the people of San Domingo reclaimed the Amerindian name of their country, Haiti. I use the two names interchangeably.) In 1936, drawing from his manuscript notes and research for the}, bookauthor = {Nicole King}, booktitle = {C. L. R. James and Creolization: Circles of Influence}, pages = {30--51}, publisher = {University Press of Mississippi}, title = {DOUBLE OR NOTHING: THE TWO BLACK JACOBINS}, year = {2001} }