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The site got its name from, "The Black Jacobins". The history of the enslaved Africans in Haiti casting off their European Christian oppressors by force (Haiti
by sillystuff 3y ago
The site got its name from, "The Black Jacobins". The history of the enslaved Africans in Haiti casting off their European Christian oppressors by force (Haitian formerly enslaved people were the first to defeat Napoleon-- many had been trained as soldiers in Africa before being kidnapped by the European Christians).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Jacobins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Jacobins
If you ever have a chance to attend a lecture or listen to an interview with Jacobin Magazine's founder, it will be worth your time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_(magazine)#:~:text=Jacobin%20founder%20Bhaskar%20Sunkara%20describes,than%20table%2C%20the%20questions%20that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_(magazine)#:~:text=Jac...
- LegitShady 3y agoOh so he's idolizing the perpetrators of the 1804 massacre of the white population by the haitian revolutionaries on the orders of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who then enacted racist policies in 1805? You find with these revolutions the massacres of the innocent are easy to find after. The haitians were not somehow more moral and upstanding than the french.