Winner of the 2021 Wolfson History Prize
"Black Spartacus is a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely to have for a long time . . . An extraordinarily gripping read." --David A. Bell, The Guardian
A new interpretation of the life of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture
Named a best book of the year by the The Economist Times Literary Supplement New Statesman