24 Oct – 02 Nov
2025
UNCLE TOM’S WAR: Haiti and the Whipping Machine
David Lee Morgan
London, UNITED KINGDOM - ENGLAND
UNCLE TOM’S WAR: Haiti and the Whipping Machine
Fiery spoken word from a London, UK and BBC Slam Poetry Champion
HAITI
Was only an island
Half an island
The smaller half
And it was thousands of miles
from the nearest big power
But it convulsed the web of the world
It shamed the American Revolution
It picked up the French Revolution
Shook it by the scruff of the neck
And said, Listen! Open your eyes
We are the human race
You are just a tiny part of it
Join us
Fascism is on the rise. A hundred years ago it led to a World War that killed over 70 million people. We are so much more powerful now. The future of the human race is at stake.
Uncle Tom’s War is the story of one of the most important revolutions in the history of the world and the lessons it has for us in these dangerous times.
David Lee Morgan has featured on poetry stages from StAnza (St Andrews) to Lingo (Dublin) to the NYC Poetry Festival. His provocative work tackles complex themes and is praised for its passionate, intellectually rigorous performance. His 2019 Nazis Need Jews (winner of Best Spoken Word Show at the Morecambe Fringe) criticised antisemitism on the Left while also attacking Israel’s right to exist as an apartheid, settler state. His Poems on Gender was the subject of a 2022 feature article in the New York Times, when it was cancelled by the New York Fringe Festival, because it defended women’s right to male-free spaces and criticised the medicalisation of gender non-conforming children.
Recently, his Brick Lane appearance at the 25th anniversary of Shikor and Global Poetry, performing his original translation of Kazi Nazrul Islam’s much loved poem, Bidrohi (The Rebel), went viral on Facebook and was seen by over 10 million viewers.
The Haitian revolution (1791-1804) shamed the American Revolution; it forced the French Revolution to abolish slavery. When Napoleon came to power and ordered the invasion of Haiti to push it back into slavery, he lost more troops than at the
Fiery spoken word from a London, UK and BBC Slam Poetry Champion
HAITI
Was only an island
Half an island
The smaller half
And it was thousands of miles
from the nearest big power
But it convulsed the web of the world
It shamed the American Revolution
It picked up the French Revolution
Shook it by the scruff of the neck
And said, Listen! Open your eyes
We are the human race
You are just a tiny part of it
Join us
Fascism is on the rise. A hundred years ago it led to a World War that killed over 70 million people. We are so much more powerful now. The future of the human race is at stake.
Uncle Tom’s War is the story of one of the most important revolutions in the history of the world and the lessons it has for us in these dangerous times.
David Lee Morgan has featured on poetry stages from StAnza (St Andrews) to Lingo (Dublin) to the NYC Poetry Festival. His provocative work tackles complex themes and is praised for its passionate, intellectually rigorous performance. His 2019 Nazis Need Jews (winner of Best Spoken Word Show at the Morecambe Fringe) criticised antisemitism on the Left while also attacking Israel’s right to exist as an apartheid, settler state. His Poems on Gender was the subject of a 2022 feature article in the New York Times, when it was cancelled by the New York Fringe Festival, because it defended women’s right to male-free spaces and criticised the medicalisation of gender non-conforming children.
Recently, his Brick Lane appearance at the 25th anniversary of Shikor and Global Poetry, performing his original translation of Kazi Nazrul Islam’s much loved poem, Bidrohi (The Rebel), went viral on Facebook and was seen by over 10 million viewers.
The Haitian revolution (1791-1804) shamed the American Revolution; it forced the French Revolution to abolish slavery. When Napoleon came to power and ordered the invasion of Haiti to push it back into slavery, he lost more troops than at the
