📗 Libro en inglés BLACK SPARTACUS : THE EPIC LIFE OF TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE

WINNER of THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE, 2021 **Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, 2020 Shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, 2020Finalist for the American Library in Paris Book Award, 2021Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography, 2021 Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, 2020Finalist for the Pen/Jacqueline Bogard Weld Award for Biography, 2020Shortlisted for the Prix Chateau de Versailles du Livre d'Histoire, 2021Shortlisted for the Prix Jean d'Ormesson, 2021'A triumph' Financial Times'Extraordinarily gripping ... a tour de force' GuardianThe Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's first independent black state. After the abolition of slavery in 1793, Toussaint Louverture, himself a former slave, became the leader of the colony's black population, the commander of its republican army and eventually its governor.