Toussaint L'Overture
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- Alright.
- Son, allow me to share with you our history.
- Yay! There are so many books here to read.
- John Locke
- Hmm...
- Though born into slavery in Saint Domingue, Toussaint learned of Africa from his father, who had been born a free man there.
- This is war.
- Oh no!
- Toussaint learned to write and read every book he could get his hands on.
- I agree to this peace treaty!
- Good...
- He particularly admired the writings of the French Enlightenment philosophers, who spoke of individual rights and equality.
- I have fulfilled my duties. (dies)
- Toussaint joined the rebellion early on as a general but did not become the leader of the slave rebellion until 1798.
- By 1803 Napoleon was ready to get Haiti off his back: he and Toussaint agreed to terms of peace.
- The French (at Napoleon's orders) betrayed the safe conduct and arrested him, putting him on a ship headed for France. Napoleon ordered that Toussaint be placed in a prison dungeon in the mountains, and murdered by means of cold, starvation, and neglect. Toussaint died in prison, but others carried on the fight for freedom.
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