Join CHP in Reading "The Black Jacobins"

CHP invites you to participate in an exploration of history this summer by reading “The Black Jacobins” by CLR James with us. We will seek, together, not only to more deeply understand the Haitian revolution, but also how it overlaps with the painful history of our own nation.

This "powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the black people of San Domingo in a successful struggle against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces and in the process helped form the first independent nation in the Caribbean."

CHP's book club for "The Black Jacobins" will meet for the first time on Saturday, August 8th @ 10 AM mountain time. We will be discussing through Chapter VI at the first meeting, which is 162 pages. The book can be found on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Audible. We will be sharing more information ahead of the first meeting, including some discussion prompts and ideas.

If you are interested in joining the book club, please email Wynn at wwalent@coloradohaitiproject.org.

We hope you can join us!