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 ...

“The name of Toussaint L’Ouverture is all but unknown in India,” remarked Ramananda Chatterjee, the editor of the Calcutta-based Modern Review, in April 1908. “Lives such as his,” nevertheless, “may ...

Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, usually attracts our attention only when it’s hit by yet another disaster: an earthquake or a cholera outbreak. We ignore it as too dangerous for ...

One of the many ironies of the life of Toussaint Louverture is that he was a governor of a French colony who never set foot in France, until he was imprisoned in the Jura mountains shortly before his ...

Three biographies published by Penguin Random House, including ones of poet Sylvia Plath and Haitian general Toussaint Louverture, are competing on the five-strong shortlist for the Slightly Foxed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...