This article originally appeared in Newsletter, published by the Institute of Race Relations in London, in October 1964, four months after Francois Duvalier was re-elected in Haiti as President for life. On the day of his death, 21 April 1971, he was succeeded as President for life by his son, Jean Claude Duvalier. James’s intention in this piece is “to make Blacks aware that in the history of revolution Blacks have played a tremendous role, even in the history of the great French revolution”.