Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution
16 February 2022, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm
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Toussaint Louverture was one of the principal leaders of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), a series of radical transformations which began with a revolt of the enslaved population in the French colony of Saint-Domingue and culminated in the proclamation of the world's first postcolonial black state. This paper will focus on Toussaint's originality as a republican thinker, military strategist, and statesman, and evaluate his wider impact on modern revolutionary culture and mythology.
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