PositiveThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)This is a balanced, yet sympathetic, biography which throws light on Toussaint’s personality and acknowledges the importance of his political ideals. It refutes those historians who have sought to place him uniquely in a French Enlightenment and republican tradition, arguing that much of his inspiration came from the Caribbean and from his experience of slavery as a young man. But there were other influences, too ... Toussaint is now a global figure, a byword for Black empowerment, and as such he has become a hero for our times.
