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

Seven portraits and a manuscript letter relating to the Haitian slave revolt leader Toussaint Louverture. Collection includes a signed letter written in French by Toussaint Louverture dated November ...

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 ...

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 ...