Toussaint
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- EQUAL RIGHTS
- In 1791 Toussaint Louverture was born into slavery
- FREEDOM!!
- Toussaint Louverture was very interested in reading and writing. He particularly admired the writings of the French Enlightenment philosophers, who spoke of individual rights and equality
- We shall discuss the peace treaty in France
- In 1789 the slaves had thoughts of the French Revolution in their head and it caused them to demand their rights.
- He didn't become general of the slave rebellion until 1798. He successfully fought the French (who helped by succumbing to yellow fever in large numbers) as well as invading Spanish and British.
- By 1803 Napoleon was ready to get Haiti off his back: he and Toussaint agreed to terms of peace. A few months later, the French invited Toussaint to come to a negotiating meeting with full safe conduct. When he arrived, 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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