For nearly 80 years no scholar has written an English-language biography of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture. This fact is even more remarkable when you consider Louverture’s contemporary ...
Madison Smartt Bell discusses his new biography Tousaint Louverture, which looks at the man who led Haiti's battle for indepenence from France. A lot of hip-hop music and mythology is about freedom, ...
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Toussaint Louverture was born a slave in 1743, but at the zenith of his power, he ruled all of Hispaniola, the Caribbean island that consists of present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In this ...
Black history, once shamefully neglected, is a constantly unfolding source of study, as scholars probe and revisit events and people whose impact and names have long been known but perhaps not fully ...
Black history, once shamefully neglected, is a constantly unfolding source of study, as scholars probe and revisit events and people whose impact and names have long been known but perhaps not fully ...
Général Toussaint Louverture (1743–1803), detail, artist unknown. (New York Public Library) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...
EXCLUSIVE: Mammoth Screen, the British producer behind series including The Serpent and Poldark, is developing a television drama based on the 18th Century slave uprising in Haiti. The story will be ...
The African Art Museum's new exhibit, "African Mosaic," surveys works collected within the past ten years. The exhibit features more than 100 objects—everything from gold jewelry to ivory carvings to ...
It is easy to be a patriot from a safe distance, without having to suffer whatever annoyance is peculiar to home. Exiles’ longing is more intense than denizens’ complacency. The best-loved homeland is ...
Aristocrat, c. 1740 -- Child, c. 1743-1754 -- Slave, 1754 -- Revolutionary apprentice, 1757-1773 -- Family man, 1761-1785 -- Freedman, c. 1772-1779 -- Slave driver ...
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