
Toussaint Louverture, Haitian Revolutionary

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Toussaint Louverture, Haitian Revolutionary
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Toussaint Louverture emerged as a leader during the widespread uprisings of enslaved people in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) in 1791 that led eventually to the abolition of slavery there in 1793. He became the first Black general of the French Republic in 1795 and ascended to commander in chief in 1797. He died imprisoned in France in 1803. One of his lieutenants, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, declared Haiti independent in 1804. Anonymous illustration from 1802.
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