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I really want either a miniseries or a bunch of movies telling the story of the Haitian Revolution. Sadly, that seems to never be able to get funded. It’s almost as if Americans or the French, who would be most likely to tell the story, don’t want people to know this story.
Well there's always the play Toussaint Louverture, written in 1934. Paul Robeson played the title role in 1936 in London. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toussaint_Louverture:_The_Story_of_the_Only_Successful_Slave_Revolt_in_History
The playwright, CLR James, later wrote a book about the revolt, and revised his play, which went on the stage as The Black Jacobins.
From the Wiki: "In 2018, it was announced that the book was going to be made into a television programme thanks to Bryncoed Productions, with the assistance of Kwame Kwei-Armah."
Bryncoed was founded by Foz Allan. I did a bit of poking around but found nothing linking either of them or Kwei-Armah with The Black Jacobins. I would love to see a TV series on the revolt, I hope something comes to pass. CLR James was an interesting fellow too, his achievements deserve more recognition.
How about a board game?
There is a lot of good history boardgames can teach. And fun alternate history they can create :)
They mentioned it in the new Castlevania series. That is probably the most I learned about it from media.
I saw that too. It was a nice way to indroduce Voudon to it.