This is the seventh episode of our 12-part series Reading the Black Jacobins with Geo Maher.

Readings for Episode 7 are:

• Ch. 6, “The Rise of Toussaint”
• Ch. 7, “The Mulattoes Try and Fail”

Study Questions for Episode 7 are:

• Who was Toussaint, and what made him an eSective leader?
• Who were the “mulattoes” and what motivated them?

As always, we’ll be using the post-1963 edition of The Black Jacobins, which is identifiable by the Appendix.

The Abolition School Radio podcast is a collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction.

This is the eighth episode of our 12-part series Reading the Black Jacobins with Geo Maher.

Readings for Episode 8 are:

• Ch. 8, “The White Slave-Owners Again”

Study Questions for Episode 8 are:

• What was Robespierre’s fatal error?

As always, we’ll be using the post-1963 edition of The Black Jacobins, which is identifiable by the Appendix.

The Abolition School Radio podcast is a collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction.

This is the ninth episode of our 12-part series Reading the Black Jacobins with Geo Maher.

Readings for Episode 9 are:

• Ch. 9, “The Expulsion of the British”
• Ch. 10, “Toussaint Seizes the Power”

Study Questions for Episode 9 are:

• What was Toussaint’s “one serious mistake”?

As always, we’ll be using the post-1963 edition of The Black Jacobins, which is identifiable by the Appendix.

The Abolition School Radio podcast is a collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction.

This is the tenth episode of our 12-part series Reading the Black Jacobins with Geo Maher.

Readings for Episode 10 are:

• Ch. 11, “The Black Consul”

Study Questions for Episode 10 are:

• What did Black workers want, and what did Toussaint want from them?

As always, we’ll be using the post-1963 edition of The Black Jacobins, which is identifiable by the Appendix.

The Abolition School Radio podcast is a collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction.

This is the eleventh episode of our 12-part series Reading the Black Jacobins with Geo Maher.

Readings for Episode 11 are:

• Ch. 12, “The Bourgeoisie Prepares to Restore Slavery”

Study Questions for Episode 11 are:

• How are sansculottes different from Jacobins?
• Why did Toussaint have Moïse shot, and why was it a “tragedy”?

As always, we’ll be using the post-1963 edition of The Black Jacobins, which is identifiable by the Appendix.

The Abolition School Radio podcast is a collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction.

This is the final episode of our 12-part series Reading the Black Jacobins with Geo Maher. If you liked this season of Abolition School Radio, tune in to our other seasons on W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction, Frantz Fanon’s works, and more at haymarketbooks.org.

Readings for Episode 12 are:

• Ch. 13, “The War of Independence,” especially pp. 289-301, 338-339, 356-362, 370-373.

Study Questions for Episode 11 are:

• Was the massacre of the whites a tragedy, and if so, for whom?
• Why did Toussaint lose, and why did Dessalines win?

As always, we’ll be using the post-1963 edition of The Black Jacobins, which is identifiable by the Appendix.

The Abolition School Radio podcast is a collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction.