Collection items

Letter from C L R James to Andrew Salkey, 1965

Letter, Manuscript, Typescript

C L R James sent this letter to writer and broadcaster Andrew Salkey at the BBC Colonial Service in September 1965. In i...

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint Louverture and the S...

Book, Map, Illustration, Image

This is a first edition of The Black Jacobins (1938), C L R James’s classic history of the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1...

Typescript of The Black Jacobins by C L R James

Typescript, Manuscript, Draft

This is a draft typescript of The Black Jacobins, C L R James’s 1967 play about the Haitian Revolution. One of several ...