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The currency was primarily supported by a political group known as the Jacobins, a party whose power waned throughout the revolution.

Abigail responded harshly to Republican critics of Jay’s Treaty, calling them “mindless Jacobins and party creatures.”

After he and many of his fellow Jacobins were released from prison, David claimed to have been only an artist, albeit one overwhelmed by the politics of the day.

One of this show’s most extraordinary feats is the assembly of six drawings David made of his fellow Jacobins in prison, all in profile, in rounded frames like Roman heroes on coins.

In his famous account of the Haitian Revolution, “The Black Jacobins,” C.L.R.