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 ...

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 ...

Toussaint Louverture, according to the scholar Sudhir Hazareesingh, was “the first black superhero of the modern age.” Louverture was born enslaved on a sugar plantation on Saint-Domingue, a French ...

En 1791, les échos de la déclaration des droits de l’homme retentissent jusqu’aux Antilles. Partout, les esclaves se soulèvent. Mais à Saint-Domingue, riche possession française, la rébellion prend ...