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Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography by J. R. Beard, 1863; Toussaint L'Ouverture, a Santana Latin rock song from their first album, Santana. A section of Bob Corbett's on-line course on the history of Haïti that deals with Toussaint's rise to power. The Louverture Project; Toussaint at IMDb
François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (French: [fʁɑ̃swa dɔminik tusɛ̃ luvɛʁtyʁ] 9 May 1743 – 7 April 1803), also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda, was the best-known leader of the Haitian Revolution. He was a leader of the growing resistance.
C. L. R. James went on to write the classic history of the Haitian Revolution, the book The Black Jacobins, in 1938. In 1967, James completely revised his play with the help of Dexter Lyndersay, and his new play, The Black Jacobins , has been performed internationally subsequently, including a radio adaptation broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 13 ...
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution is a 1938 book by Trinidadian historian C. L. R. James, and is a history of the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804. He went to Paris to research this work, where he met Haitian military historian Alfred Auguste Nemours .
The armistice was signed with the British general Thomas Maitland, only three days after arrival, on March 27, 1798, of Hédouville, sent from the directory, which must leave on October 23 of the same year, which mission was to discreetly incite Toussaint Louverture to engage his army in the attack on Jamaica and the United States, which the ...
The War of Knives (French: Guerre des couteaux), also known as the War of the South, was a civil war from June 1799 to July 1800 between the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, a black ex-slave who controlled the north of Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti), and his adversary André Rigaud, a mixed-race free person of color who controlled the south. [1]
Arawak and Taino people inhabited for more than one thousand years what was later known as Hispaniola. Christopher Columbus arrived to the island on December 5, 1492.. In 1659, half of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, became the French colony Saint-Domingue, during the time of the Atlantic slave trade [1]
Moyse (Moïse, Moise) Hyacinthe L'Ouverture (1773 – 1801) was a military leader in Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution.Originally allied with Toussaint L'Ouverture, Moyse grew disillusioned with the minimal labor reform and land distribution for black former slaves under the L'Ouverture administration and lead a rebellion against Toussaint in 1801.