Aristocrat, c. 1740 -- Child, c. 1743-1754 -- Slave, 1754 -- Revolutionary apprentice, 1757-1773 -- Family man, 1761-1785 -- Freedman, c. 1772-1779 -- Slave driver ...

Toussaint Louverture was a man of contradictions. He was a free black man and a slave owner, yet he led a successful slave revolution. In a biography of Louverture by Baltimore author Madison Smartt ...

“I was born a slave, but nature gave me the soul of a free man,” said Toussaint Louverture, the leader of the successful Haitian slave revolt of 1791 to 1804. The Haitain revolution reverberated ...

The story of Toussaint Louverture is a particularly powerful one for the African diaspora, but for humanity and global struggles for liberation. Napoleon Maddox chose to draw inspiration from the life ...

Toussaint Louverture, a former slave, declared himself commander in chief of the French army in Saint Domingue (modern-day Haiti), even though he was ostensibly at war with France. How he did so is ...

C.L.R. James, adapted by Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee. Verso, $24.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-78873-790-6 This forceful and cinematic adaptation by comics newcomers Watts and Karimjee turns ...

Come for the presents. Stay for the baggage.

Within a few years, the name of Toussaint – born on the Bréda plantation around 1740 to a family from the Allada people of present-day Benin – had spread across the Atlantic and around the world. In ...