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On this panel at the Black Jacobins Revisited: Rewriting History Conference in Liverpool, arranged to mark the 75th anniversary of the publication of C.L.R. James pioneering, anti-colonial work, The Black Jacobins, two scholars provide us with their papers. Raphael Hoermann, (Giessen University) presents his paper entitled ‘The Eighteenth Brumaire of Toussaint Louverture? C.L.R. James’s Poetics of Anti-Colonial Revolution in The Black Jacobins and Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire.’ Joanna Tegnerowicz (University of Wroclow) presents her paper entitled  ‘And now tell us that we are not worthy of freedom …’: Revolutionaries, Race and ‘Civilization’.’