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'''Jacobins''' - originally referring to members of the Jacobin Club during the [[French Revolution]], the term came to apply broadly to revolutionaries of all stripes. Haitian revolutionaries, such as [[Toussaint Louverture]] have been called ''Black Jacobins'' (French: ''Les Jacobins Noir''), for example in the title of the seminal book on the Haitian Revolution [[The Black Jacobins|The Black Jacobins. Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution]] (1938) by Trinidadian author C.L.R. James.  
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'''Jacobins''' - originally referring to members of the revolutionary Jacobin Club in France, the term came to apply broadly to revolutionaries of all stripes.
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
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*[[Red Cockades]] - Supporters of the French Revolution.
 
*[[Red Cockades]] - Supporters of the French Revolution.
 
*[[White Cockades]] - Pro-[[Royalist]] counter-revolutionaries to the Jacobins.
 
*[[White Cockades]] - Pro-[[Royalist]] counter-revolutionaries to the Jacobins.
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*[[Republicans]] - foes of monarchy.
 
*[[Royalists]] - Supporters of absolute and constitutional monarchy, opposed to the [[French Revolution]].
 
*[[Royalists]] - Supporters of absolute and constitutional monarchy, opposed to the [[French Revolution]].
*[[Republicans]] -  in favor of a political system without a monarch.
 
  
==External link==
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* [[The Black Jacobins]] - Highly regarded book on the Haitian Revolution by C.L.R. James.
*Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_Club Jacobin Club]
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Latest revision as of 11:24, 17 October 2010

Jacobins - originally referring to members of the revolutionary Jacobin Club in France, the term came to apply broadly to revolutionaries of all stripes.

See also