Toussaint louverture

There have been many “Great African Military leaders” in the history of our civilization. Some will be familiar, such as Toussaint L’Ouverture (pictured above); but there are many who have been left out of the history textbooks (dare I say, deliberately). The Atlanta Black Star has profiled some of these great leaders who fought courageously against European and […]

Warrior

In the series of extracts I am publishing from my almost-written book on the history of moral thought, we have reached Chapter 16. Beginning in the eighteenth century with Enlightenment hope and en…

The story Theresa a haytien tale was published in 1828. This describes the story.

Philippe Girard’s “Toussaint Louverture” is a sophisticated and anti-mythological biography.

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Haitian Revolution (1791–1804), series of conflicts between Haitian slaves, colonists, the armies of the British and French colonizers, and a number of other parties. Through the struggle, the Haitian people ultimately won independence from France and thereby became the first country to be founded by former slaves.