Academic and author Sudhir Hazareesingh’s latest work, Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture, is an authoritative biography of Toussaint Louverture, a former slave who went on to become the leader and face of Haitian independence. Digging deep into archival material, Hazareesingh’s work gives us a unique insight into Louverture's modern views that are an amalgamation of not just Enlightenment ideals but also a hybrid heritage of fraternal slave organisations, Caribbean mysticism

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