The son of a provincial school administrator in British-governed Trinidad, James disappointed his family by embracing the culture and passions of the colonial underclass, Carnival and cricket. He joined the literary avant-garde of the island before leaving for Britain. In the UK, James swiftly became a beloved cricket journalist, playwright for his close friend Paul Robeson, and a pathbreaking scholar of black history with The Black Jacobins (1938), the first history of the Haitian revolt.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 48 ● ISBN 9781629635286 ● Editor Paul Buhle & Lawrence Ware ● Publisher Pm Press ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 6600403 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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