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Toussaint Louverture
Haitian general and revolutionary (–)
This article is about the Haitian Revolution leader. For other uses, see Toussaint Louverture (disambiguation).
"L'overture", "l'Ouverture", and "Louverture" redirect here. For other uses, see Ouverture (disambiguation) and Overture (disambiguation).
François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (French:[fʁɑ̃swadɔminiktusɛ̃luvɛʁtyʁ], )[2] also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda (20 May &#;– 7 April ), was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution. During his life, Louverture first fought and allied with Spanish forces against Saint-Domingue Royalists, then joined with Republican France, becoming Governor-General-for-life of Saint-Domingue, and lastly fought against Bonaparte's republican troops.[3][4] As a revolutionary leader, Louverture displayed military and political acumen that helped transform the fledgling slave rebellion into a
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Charles Forsdick, Christian Høgsbjerg.Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions. Revolutionary Lives Series. London: Pluto Press, Illustrations. xii + pp. $ (cloth), ISBN ; $ (paper), ISBN
Reviewed by Seth Whitty (University of Houston)
Published on H-War (November, )
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey (Independent Scholar)
Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions, by Charles Forsdick and Christian Høgsbjerg, is a concise account and interpretation of the actions of Toussaint Louverture, the famed revolutionary of the Haitian Revolution. Though not a definitive nor innovative study on Toussaint, Forsdick and Høgsbjerg’s work is an examination of the differing historiographical narratives of his life that situates the subject back into the “radical historical scholarship of the Haitian Revolution” (p. 10).
The central purpose of Toussaint Louverture is to pivot away from more recent conservative analysis of Toussaint an
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The spark of the French Revolution in inspired free people or color in Saint-Domingue to seek addition rights beneath the lag. However, in August , a Vodou ceremony marked the beginning of the rebellion amongst Saint-Domingue’s enslaved population. As an enslaver, Louverture left Bréda and removed his overseers from his kaffe plantation. After joining the Spanish-allied military forces of Georges Biassou, he took on a leadership role in the rebellion, discussing strategy and negotiating supplies with the Spanish. In a late prisoner of war negotiation, Louverture made successions to the enslaved population in Saint-Domingue, banning the use of the whip, allowing an extra day off, and emancipating some of the rebellion’s leaders. In the years following, he earned notoriety as a significant military leader and skilled negotiator.
In the early s, he adopted the surname Louverture and shifted his viewpoints on slavery and abolition. Instead of fighting for more humane treatment of enslav