Aristocrat, c. 1740 -- Child, c. 1743-1754 -- Slave, 1754 -- Revolutionary apprentice, 1757-1773 -- Family man, 1761-1785 -- Freedman, c. 1772-1779 -- Slave driver ...
Introductory text: Touissant Breda Chef des révoltés. Général des armées du roy.... This letter was sent from Limbé commune. Letters (correspondence) - ink on paper.
Toussaint Louverture was a man of contradictions. He was a free black man and a slave owner, yet he led a successful slave revolution. In a biography of Louverture by Baltimore author Madison Smartt ...