Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

This book greatly expands on my knowledge of Toussaint Louverture the mythic liberator of Colonial Haiti. Haiti was a French slave colony which wrested goods and wealth on the backs of people stolen from Africa to the benefit of the people of France through the brutal and inhumane system of slavery. Most of the now so civilized nations of Europe were not to long ago the most wretched people on earth, who learned to justify that which they would not tolerate and built their now wealthy countries by subjecting their brothers and sisters. Having gained the benefit of these ill gotten gains the same nations preach civility while occasionally overthrowing whatever rickety attempts at self government which might spring in the wake of their regimes. If you want to understand Haitian history I strongly recommend this book. Mike Dupuy

Very frustrating listen. The narrator is very flat and monotone. Even the most exciting parts of the book, sounds like reading a list. Worse, often key points are explained with quotations in French, but no English translations are not provided. The book opens lamenting how the central figure is overlooked and unknown in the English world yet snobbishly refuses to explain his most triumphant rejoinders in English. Also, the book is the fawning hero worship that tries to square too many circles.

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