Toussaint L'Ouverture Cartoon
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- Toussaint L'Ouverture began his life as an enslaved person in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. He worked as a coachman, was educated by a Jesuit priest, and was exposed to Enlightenment ideas.
- "All men are equal? Then why does slavery persist?"
- After enslaved people revolted against slavery, Toussaint became their leader through his charisma and military skill. He led the army of the formerly enslaved to many victories and won the abolition of slavery in the colony.
- "This will teach you to bow before your betters."
- "In overthrowing me, you have broken down only the trunk of of the tree of liberty for the blacks; it will spring up again from its roots which are many and deep."
- After allying with the new French Republic that resulted from the French Revolution for a time, Toussaint was betrayed and captured on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte, who ordered the re-establishment of slavery in Saint-Domingue. Toussaint was exiled to France, where he died in prison. Before he died, however, he vowed to the French that slavery would never be re-established in Saint-Domingue. The year after Toussaint died, Saint-Domingue became the free and independent nation of Haiti.
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