Paul Foot Speaks! Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution
Channel: Matthew Siegfried
Date: 2015-05-23

A talk by Paul Foot delivered in London on 12th July, 1991.

Paul Foot Speaks! Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution Based on C.L.R. James’ The Black Jacobins, Paul Foot describes how the Haitian Revolution of 1791 was intertwined with the French revolution and how emancipation was an act of the enslaved themselves.