C. L. R. James was also a great pioneer of the 'history from below' approach. Living in Britain when he wrote his most notable work "The Black Jacobins" (1938), he was an anti-Stalinist Marxist and so outside of the CPGB. The Black Jacobins was the first professional historical account of the greatest and only successful slave revolt in colonial American history, the "Haitian Revolution". James's history is still touted as a remarkable work of history nearly a century after publication, an immense work of historical investigation, story-telling, and creativity.