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CLR James Born, 1901

CLR James, Trinidadian socialist, historian, theorist and cricket aficionado
CLR James, Trinidadian socialist, historian, theorist and cricket aficionado

On 4 January 1901, CLR James, anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado, was born in Trinidad.

In his masterful history of the Haitian revolution, The Black Jacobins, James remarked:

“When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.”

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