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Also Known As	Cyril Lionel Robert James
Born	January 4, 1901 • Trinidad and Tobago
Died	May 31, 1989 (aged 88) • London • England
Notable Works	“Beyond a Boundary” • “The Black Jacobins”
Movement / Style	Marxism

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