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* The Louverture Project: Thomas Clarkson – Thoughts on The Haitian Revolution Excerpt from an 1823 Clarkson book.
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* The Louverture Project: Simón Bolívar – Information about the support Bolívar received from Haiti.
* The Louverture Project: William Wells Brown on Jean-Jacques Dessalines-Excerpt from The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements.
* The Louverture Project: William Wells Brown, " Toussaint L ' Ouverture ", in The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements ( 1863 ).
* The Louverture Project: Dessalines William Wells Brown, " Jean-Jacques Dessalines ", in The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements ( 1863 )
Louverture and –
* July 7 – Toussaint Louverture promulgates a reforming constitution for Santo Domingo, declaring himself emperor for life of the entire island of Hispaniola and nominally abolishing slavery.
* Toussaint Louverture of Saint-Domingue was proclaimed Governor for Life by the 1801 Constitution – arrested and exiled to metropolitan France 1802, died 1803.
File: Général Toussaint Louverture. jpg | Toussaint Louverture, Governor for Life of Saint-Domingue ( 1801 – 1802 )
He is known for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, published 1995 – 2004.
During the night of 17 – 18 November 1803, the Haitians positioned their few guns to blast Fort Bréda, located on the habitation where Toussaint Louverture had worked as a coachman under François Capois.
Louverture and on
It was then that Dessalines met the rising military commander Toussaint Bréda ( later known as Toussaint Louverture ), a mature man also born into slavery, who was fighting with Spanish forces on Hispaniola.
This transformation of the island's colonial experience became apparent the previous year, when Toussaint Louverture, governor of Saint Domingue ( now Haiti ), a colony of France located on the western third of Hispaniola, took control of Santo Domingo, located on the island's eastern two-thirds.
She had hardly been given any trial when, by chance, she was called on to create the leading woman's part in Lamartine's Toussaint Louverture at the Porte St Martin on 6 April 1848.
In this capacity, Fort-de-Joux is best known for serving as the site of imprisonment for Toussaint Louverture, who died there on 7 April 1803, Mirabeau, and Heinrich von Kleist.
Louverture and Haitian
The Slaves Who Defeated Napoléon: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence ( Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, November 2011 ).
Born a free gens de couleur ( or mulatto ) in Saint-Domingue ( modern-day Haiti ) and educated in France, Boyer fought with Toussaint Louverture in the early years of the Haitian Revolution.
* All Souls ' Rising, a novel about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN / Faulkner Award.
During his leadership of the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint Louverture usually portrayed himself as a legitimate agent of a French administration.
Equal rights for free people of color became an early central issue of the Haitian Revolution, although the struggle within Haiti between the gens de couleur led by Julien Raimond and the black Haitians led by Toussaint Louverture devolved into the War of the Knives.
* During the Haitian Revolution, grapeshot was used by French troops against the victorious troops of Toussaint Louverture.
The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence ( University of Alabama Press, 2011 ).
Right after the tragic death of Boukman Dutty, the insurgent slaves ’ first leader, Jean-François Papillon imposed his authority over the other black generals, especially Georges Biassou, Jeannot Bullet and Toussaint Bréda ( later Toussaint Louverture ), and became commander-in-chief of the Haitian former slaves.
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