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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.
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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. 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
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

Revision as of 12:10, 9 December 2005

Jacobins - originally referring to members of the revolutionary Jacobin Club in France, 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. Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938) by Trinidadian author C.L.R. James

See also