Written from a Marxist perspective, it won him widespread acclaim. Published in 1938, it is a history of the Haitian slave revolution in the 1790s. His biographer, Paul Buhle called James’s 1932 work, The Case for West Indian Self Government, “The first important manifesto for national independence in the British West Indies.” But his most famous work is The Black Jacobins. He was a leading figure in the Pan-African movement. He was born on January 4, 1901, in Tunapuna, in the East–West Corridor of the island of Trinidad and Tobago and died on May 31, 1989, in London, England. Genius, a seducer, a self-destructive wreck… the firebrand author, historian and critic was a complex, fragile human being, as John L Williams’s biography reveals.Ĭyril Lionel Robert James - better known as CLR James - was a cultural historian, journalist, intellectual and socialist and cricket writer.
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