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Toussaint Louverture

Leader of the Haitian Revolution and former enslaved person

Did you know?His military genius and political leadership transformed a colony of enslaved people into the first independent Black republic.

François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (English: LOO-vər-TURE, French:; 20 May 1743 – 7 April 1803), also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda, was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution.

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Age at death
59
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