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Toussaint Louverture

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by Kevin Wolf In 1936 a play opened in London and according to the back cover “for the first time, black actors appeared on the British stage in a work by a black playwright.” This was C.L.R. (Cyril Lionel Robert) James (“Trinidadian historian, journalist, and revolutionary) work portraying the revolt of enslaved people. Paul Robeson played Toussaint Louverture. Toussaint had helped lead the revolt against slavery in San Domingo (taking back its pre-colonial name of Haiti). James is quoted on the inside cover “They, the Negro slaves, are the most important characters in the play. Toussaint did not make the… Read More

Medical Mentions Book Review XVI

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Medical Mentions are a group of graphic works. The graphic works reviewed here are books whose primary topics are not medical, and yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often technical and five pages or more. The reviewer will usually neither recommend nor discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is deemed outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six graphic works will be part of the review with one paragraph for each. Prior Medical Mentions… Read More