Profile: A Trinidadian writer and political activist and lover of cricket.
Plaque Location: 165 Railton Rd, Brixton, London, SE24
Plaque inscription: ‘West Indian Writer and Political Activist lived and died here’
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| C.L.R. James |
His seminal work, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938), is the much studied text highlighting the impact of the 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution. His other famous works being Beyond the Boundary (1963) which used cricket as a metaphor to discuss topics of Race, colonialism and philosophy.
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