By that point many more people were ready to accept the radical conclusions drawn by Du Bois and James. Although black and left-wing audiences read and praised these books immediately upon publication, not until the 1960s did they reached large mass audiences. Both books have been comparably received since publication. The similarities between Black Reconstruction and Black Jacobins do not end there. James, a Trinidadian living in London at the time of writing and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth-century black diaspora, hoped that his remarkable inquiry into the Haitian Revolution would speak to the emerging anticolonial movements for independence in Africa.
Du Bois and James sought that their historical insights about revolutions past would speak to revolutions future.ĭu Bois, the most important African American intellectual of the twentieth century, wished for his trailblazing analysis of the Civil War and Reconstruction to endow the wisdom of past struggles upon the coming movement for black rights in the United States. Both were about race, class, slavery, and revolution, and both were forged with comparable purposes. James’s Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938). Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America (1935) and C.L.R. Two of the greatest history books ever written emerged three years apart: W.E.B.
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