Toussaint L'Overture Comic
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- Though born into slavery in Saint Domingue, Toussaint learned of Africa from his father, who had been born a free man there. He learned that he was more than a slave, that he was a human being deserving of dignity.
- Toussaint joined the rebellion early on as a general but did not become the leader of the slave rebellion until 1798. He would come to be known as Toussaint L'Ouverture (the one who finds an opening) and brilliantly led his rag-tag slave army.
- PEACE
- Though the Jacobins brought indiscriminate death to France, they were also idealists who wanted to take the revolution as far as it could go.
- Public Goodbye
- Toussaint proved to be a brilliant general, winning 7 battles in 7 days. He became a de facto governor of the colony.
- By 1803 Napoleon was ready to get Haiti off his back: he and Toussaint agreed to terms of peace.
- Napoleon agreed to recognize Haitian independence and Toussaint agreed to retire from public life. A few months later, the French invited Toussaint to come to a negotiating meeting with full safe conduct.
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