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 ...
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 ...
Sudhir Hazareesingh's "Black Spartacus" illuminates the remarkable Haitian liberator Toussaint Louverture — and the universal importance of the revolution he led. That’s how author Sudhir Hazareesingh ...
Aristocrat, c. 1740 -- Child, c. 1743-1754 -- Slave, 1754 -- Revolutionary apprentice, 1757-1773 -- Family man, 1761-1785 -- Freedman, c. 1772-1779 -- Slave driver ...
The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting 300 people who have made New Orleans New Orleans, featuring ...
The French president paid tribute to Toussaint Louverture, the leader of the Haitian Revolution, but said nothing about the lingering effects of France’s slaving past. By Constant Méheut and Catherine ...
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 ...
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 ...
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