“But it’s still a way of looking at Toussaint. He really was larger than life.” The sculpture ... In 1743, Toussaint Louverture was born into bondage in Haiti, the French island colony ...

Toussaint Louverture, also known as Toussaint de Bréda ... Louverture was born into slavery on a plantation in Saint-Domingue, and became a free man in his adult life. From the early 1790s, he was ...

Hazareesingh likens the Haitian revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture to his contemporary nemesis, Napoléon Bonaparte. Like the French emperor, Toussaint possessed superior leadership skills, a ...

click image for close-up Although there is a large body of visual materials depicting the Haitian revolution, there are no existing portraits drawn from life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the hero of ...