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Networks: Washington D.C.
Sex: Male
Birthday: May 20, 1742
Hometown: Saint-Dominique, Haiti
View photos of Toussiant (5) Relationship Status: Married to Suzanne Simone Baptiste
Louverture
Send Touissaint a message Political Views: Revolutionary
Religious Views: Roman Catholic
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Activities: guerilla warfare, being a statesman, bringing freedom of slaves to
Information the attention of the world, defeating France, Britain, and Spain
Networks: Interests: bettering Haiti, helping being the voice for slaves, African American
Haiti people’s education
Birthday: Favorite Music: Johann Bach, Francesco Geminiani
May 20, 1743
Political: Favorite Painting:
Revolutionary Favorite Books: Robinson Crusoe, A Tale of Two Cities
Religion:
Roman Catholic
Hometown:
Saint-Dominique, Haiti
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Phone Number: 890-678-6584
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April 1803
Information Thomas Jefferson Thanks again for the help with the Louisiana Purchase.
Apr. 30, 1803
Networks:
Haiti
Birthday:
May, 20 1743 Touissant L’Overture just got the okay from Leclerc to continue governing St.
Political:
Domingo May 1, 1802
Revolutionary
Religion:
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Hometown: Toussaint L’Overture just finished the Haitian constitution!!
Saint-Dominique, Haiti July 8,1801
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Toussaint L’Overture expelled the French commissioner
Léger-Félicité Sonthonax
1797
Thomas Simon Miguel Toussaint L’Overture so excited for the abolishment of slavery (-:
June 1794
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Jose Dom Jose
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11. Haiti was
known as
St. Dominique
• Saint Dominique was a French colony and the world's
leading sugar producer.
• A few French families made huge profits from sugar,
while most Haitians were African slaves
• Most slaves worked on plantations and they outnumbered
their masters dramatically
12. • When the French Revolution began, white settlers called
for independence. Slaves had their own goal -- freedom.
• In 1791, about 100,000 slaves rose in revolt. They burned
the sugar cane in the fields and killed hundreds of slave
owners.
13. A Leader Emerges
•Became a skilled
Touissant general and
diplomat
L’Ouvertur
e •Led slave revolt
in 1791
• L'Ouverture organized the rebels into an effective
fighting force. By 1801, Toussaint had moved into
Spanish Santo Domingo He took control of the territory,
freed the slaves and created a constitution.
14. • When Napoleon Bonaparte took power
in France, he decided to reclaim the
rich sugar plantations of Saint
Dominique. In January 1802, 16,000
French troops landed in Saint
Dominique to get rid of Toussaint.
I want St. Dominique back!
We will stop fighting if you agree to
end slavery forever on St. Dominique!
Yes, of course we agree.. Why don’t you
come to Paris to discuss this further.
• L'Ouverture urged Haitians to fight to the death against the
invaders.
• However, Toussaint agreed to halt the revolution if the French
would end slavery.
15. • Despite the agreement, the French soon accused him of
planning another uprising.
• The French sent Toussaint to an icy prison in the French Alps.
Ten months later, in 1803, the Haitian leader died.
“In overthrowing me, you have done
no more than cut down the trunk
of the tree of the black liberty in
St.Domingue- it will spring back
from the roots, for they are
numerous and deep.”
- Toussaint L’Ouverture
16. After Toussaint’s death, Haiti was restored to French domination and slavery
was re-implemented. However, The taste of freedom that Toussaint had
enabled the Haitians to feel was not in vain. They continued to fight the
French in a brutal revolution.
17. The Impact of
Change
•The country was crippled by years of war, its agriculture devastated, its
formal commerce nonexistent, and the people uneducated and mostly
unskilled.
•Six months later, Napoleon decided to give up his possessions in the New
World. He was busy in Europe and these far-away possessions were more
trouble than they were worth.
• He abandoned Haiti to independence and sold the French territory in
North America to the United States (the Louisiana purchase).
18. REVOLUTION in
HAITI
1791-
1804
The Haitian Revolution
marked the only time in
history that African
slaves successfully rose
up to overthrow their
European oppressors.
