Toussaint Louverture, François Dominique
1743?–1803
Leader of the slave revolution that brought Haiti independence from France in 1804; a man who, in the words of Aimé Césaire, took “a population and turned it into a people.”
Toussaint Louverture, François Dominique
1743?–1803
Leader of the slave revolution that brought Haiti independence from France in 1804; a man who, in the words of Aimé Césaire, took “a population and turned it into a people.”
- Richard Watts
A version of this article originally appeared in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience.
