Parliamentary Question on the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade
20th March 2007
Dr. Hywel Francis (Aberavon) (Lab): The hon. Gentleman rightly paid tribute to Eric Williams's work as an historian. Will he join me in paying tribute to that very great historian, CLR James, who in 1938 wrote the famous book about the slave uprising in Haiti called, appropriately, "The Black Jacobins"?
Dr. Cable: Yes, indeed. I am less familiar with that work than with Eric Williams's book, but the hon. Gentleman is right, and there were many others.
