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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

Il a réalisé un exploit incroyable au tournant du 18e et du 19e siècle. Ancien esclave et fils d'Africains réduits en esclavage, il est à la tête d'une révolution qui aboutit à la libération de tous ...

La version audio de cet article est générée par la synthèse vocale, une technologie basée sur l’intelligence artificielle. L’auteur franco-torontois, natif d’Haïti, Gabriel Osson consacre son dernier ...

Plus loin, une lettre du premier consul, Bonaparte, à Toussaint Louverture daté du 18 novembre 1801, se fait menaçante quand Louverture ose proposer sa Constitution de la colonie française de ...

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 ...

«J’aurais aimé qu’on montre un homme d’une grande intelligence plutôt qu’un Fanfan la Tulipe. » Alain Foix est déçu. Coscénariste et « caution historique » du projet de France Télévisions, l’historien ...