Foreword / Laurent Dubois  vii

Acknowledgments  xi

Introduction / Christian Høgsbjerg  1

Editorial Note / Christian Høgsbjerg  41

Author's Note (1936) / C. L. R. James  45

Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History  

The Complete Playscript (1934)  47

Act II, Scene I, of Toussaint Louverture (1936)  135

The Production and Performance of Toussaint Louverture  

Notices  155

The Programme (1936)  160

Reviews  164

Appendix  

"The Intelligence of the Negro" / C. L. R. James  189

"A Century of Freedom" / C. L. R. James  199

"Slavery Today: A Shocking Exposure" / C. L. R. James  206

"I Want Negro Culture" / Paul Robeson  212

"'Civilising' the 'Blacks': Why Britain Needs to Maintain Her African Possessions" / C. L. R. James  214

Letter from George Padmore to Dr. Alain Locke  217

["The Maverick Club"] / C. L. R. James  218

"A Unique Personality" / C. L. R. James  219

"Paul Robeson" / C. L. R. James  221

Laurent Dubois

Christian Høgsbjerg

“[T]horoughly researched and intelligently prepared. . . .Toussaint Louverture is easily one of the two or three most important publications of C.L.R. James’s work in decades – and the best-edited, by a very large margin.”—Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed

“Highly recommended.”—A.J. Guillaume Jr., Choice

“[T]horoughly researched and intelligently prepared. . . .Toussaint Louverture is easily one of the two or three most important publications of C.L.R. James’s work in decades – and the best-edited, by a very large margin.”—Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed

“Highly recommended.”—A.J. Guillaume Jr., Choice

"The text of this nearly forgotten drama, succinctly introduced to today's readers with a valuable set of accompanying essays, is an invaluable contribution to Pan-African studies and our understanding of 'the Black Plato' as a remarkably talented playwright. C. L. R. James readers, and not only those of The Black Jacobins, will rejoice."—Paul Buhle, authorized biographer, author of C. L. R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary

"Long legendary throughout the diaspora, the first version of C. L. R. James's play about Toussaint Louverture finally emerges from the archives. This play is the production that united James with his friend Paul Robeson on the London stage. It was an extraordinary event at the time—witness the contemporary reviews added to this publication—and it is no less extraordinary today. In addition to reviews, this edition also reprints valuable early statements from James and Robeson. It is a singular, one might even say Olympian, volume with much to teach us all."—Aldon Lynn Nielsen, author of C. L. R. James: A Critical Introduction and Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation

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