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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  
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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.
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
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*[[White Cockades]] - Pro-[[Royalist]] counter-revolutionaries to the Jacobins.
 
*[[White Cockades]] - Pro-[[Royalist]] counter-revolutionaries to the Jacobins.
 
*[[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
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*[[Republicans]] -  in favor of a political system without a monarch.
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==External link==
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*Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_Club Jacobin Club]
  
  
 
[[Category:Glossary]]
 
[[Category:Glossary]]

Revision as of 12:13, 9 December 2005

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. Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938) by Trinidadian author C.L.R. James.

See also

External link