A Black History of Resistance: The Black Jacobin

This Black history masterclass, focuses on the legendary leadership of Toussaint L ’Overture, a great military commander of the modern era.

• Paul Crooks discovered his great great great grandfather when researching his African and Caribbean ancestry. He discovered his enslaved forebears walked free from a sugar plantation in Jamaica in 1838. Paul wanted to know more about what lay behind the decision to free the enslaved people of the Caribbean.