Austin’s Reviews > The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution > Status Update

“Yet when the masses turn (as turn they will one day) and try to end the tyranny of centuries, not only the tyrants but all ‘civilisation’ holds up its hand in horror and clamours for ‘order’ to be restored.”

i am reading this book so slowly but we will finish it!