Da'Marjae's Enlightenment on Toussaint L'Ouverture

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  • "I was born a free man. More than a slave with brains and dignity."
  • He particularly admired the writings on the French Enlightenment philosophers who spoke of individual right and equality.)
  • It began in 1791, French Colony of Saint Dominique.Though born into Slavery in Saint Dominique. Toussaint learned of Africa from his father.
  • Toussaint learned to read and write and read every book he could get his hands on.
  • Early Moderate revolutionaries were not willing to end slavery but did apply "Rights of Man" to all Frenchmen, Including black or those of mixed race.
  • We should give them some Rights/Freedom!
  • (Plantation Owner) NO!!!!
  • And so they retracted the Measure..
  • I give up.
  • This betrayal triggered mass revolts in Saint Dominique.
  • He became known as Toussaint L'Ouverture (the one who finds an opening.)
  • We have successfully fought the French and invading Spanish & British.
  • By 1793 France was in the hands on the Jacobins, led my Maximilian Robespierre.
  • Let's once gain consider the issue of "equality."
  • Jacobins lost power & Maximilian was sent to the Guillotine, ending the Reign of Terror.Plunging Haiti into War.
  • They voted to end slavery, including what would soon to be known as "Haiti" (Saint Dominique)
  • Months later, the French (at Napoleon's orders) arrested and betrayed him. Placed him in Fort De Joux at Napoleon's orders.
  • By 1803, Napoleon was ready to get the island off his back & Toussaint Agreed to retire from Public Life.
  • Toussaint Died however.. French Forces that remained in Haiti were soon overrun by Haitian revolutionaries led by Jean-Jacques Dessalines
  • I DECLARE HAITI A FREE REPUBLIC IN THE NAME OF THE HAITIAN PEOPLE.
  • However it was Napoleon who would lose his rule and die in prison.HAITI REMAINED FREE!!!
  • "What could the death of one wretched Negro mean to me?
  • Years later, in exile when asked about his dishonorable treatment of Toussaint Napoleon replies..
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