Toussaint Louverture | Slavery and Remembrance

Toussaint Louverture 1743 — 1803 A portrait of Toussaint Louverture on horseback. Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution inspired millions of free and enslaved people of African descent to seek freedom and equality throughout the Atlantic world.Toussaint and other black leaders of Saint-Domingue helped to lead the only Atlantic slave society which successfully defeated its oppressors.

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