Aristocrat, c. 1740 -- Child, c. 1743-1754 -- Slave, 1754 -- Revolutionary apprentice, 1757-1773 -- Family man, 1761-1785 -- Freedman, c. 1772-1779 -- Slave driver ...

Toussaint Louverture was a man of contradictions. He was a free black man and a slave owner, yet he led a successful slave revolution. In a biography of Louverture by Baltimore author Madison Smartt ...

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 story of Toussaint Louverture is a particularly powerful one for the African diaspora, but for humanity and global struggles for liberation. Napoleon Maddox chose to draw inspiration from the life ...

Haitian General Toussaint Louverture was a prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution (front). In the 1800s, he was arrested and imprisoned in France’s Fort de Joux (back) where he is now remembered ...

Within a few years, the name of Toussaint – born on the Bréda plantation around 1740 to a family from the Allada people of present-day Benin – had spread across the Atlantic and around the world. In ...

Funded by the City of Philadelphia, Mural Arts Philadelphia commissioned Philadelphia artist Claes Gabriel to create an original Mural on the facade of Super Star Barbershop located at 500 W Olney Ave ...

Often in the shadows, he had led a slave uprising across Saint-Domingue (the western part of the island of Hispaniola) with a strategic brilliance and tactical flair that set it apart from the ...