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Networks:HaitiBirthday:May 20, 1743Political:RevolutionaryReligion:Roman CatholicHometown:Saint-Dominique, Haiti

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Networks: Washington D.C.Sex: MaleBirthday: May 20, 1742Hometown: Saint-Dominique, Haiti

Relationship Status: Married to Suzanne Simone Baptiste Louverture Political Views: RevolutionaryReligious Views: Roman Catholic

Activities: guerilla warfare, being a statesman, bringing freedom of slaves to the attention of the world, defeating France, Britain, and Spain

Interests: bettering Haiti, helping being the voice for slaves, African American people’s education

Favorite Music: Johann Bach, Francesco Geminiani

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Favorite Books: Robinson Crusoe, A Tale of Two Cities

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Address: 25 Main St., Sanit-Dominque, Haiti

Phone Number: 890-678-6584

Email: [email protected]

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Networks:HaitiBirthday:May, 20 1743Political:RevolutionaryReligion:Roman CatholicHometown:Saint-Dominique, Haiti

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Simon Miguel

Jose DomFather Jose

Touissant L’Overture just got the okay from Leclerc to continue governing St.

Domingo May 1, 1802

Thomas Jefferson Thanks again for the help with the Louisiana Purchase.

Apr. 30, 1803

Toussaint L’Overture just finished the Haitian constitution!!

July 8,1801

Thomas Toussaint L’Overture so excited for the abolishment of slavery (-: June 1794

Toussaint L’Overture expelled the French commissioner Léger-Félicité Sonthonax

1797

Touissant L’Overture don’t feel so well ….

April 1803

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Haiti was known as

St. Dominique

• Saint Dominique was a French colony and the world's leading sugar producer.

• A few French families made huge profits from sugar, while most Haitians were African slaves

• Most slaves worked on plantations and they outnumbered their masters dramatically

• When the French Revolution began, white settlers called for independence. Slaves had their own goal -- freedom.

• In 1791, about 100,000 slaves rose in revolt. They burned the sugar cane in the fields and killed hundreds of slave owners.

A Leader Emerges

• L'Ouverture organized the rebels into an effective fighting force. By 1801, Toussaint had moved into Spanish Santo

Domingo He took control of the territory, freed the slaves and created a constitution.

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•Became a skilled general and

diplomat

•Led slave revolt in 1791

Yes, of course we agree.. Why don’t you come to Paris to discuss this further.

• L'Ouverture urged Haitians to fight to the death against the invaders. • However, Toussaint agreed to halt the revolution if the French would

end slavery.

• When Napoleon Bonaparte took power in France, he decided to reclaim the rich

sugar plantations of Saint Dominique. In January 1802, 16,000 French troops

landed in Saint Dominique to get rid of Toussaint.

I want St. Dominique back!

We will stop fighting if you agree to end slavery forever on St. Dominique!

• Despite the agreement, the French soon accused him of planning another uprising.

• The French sent Toussaint to an icy prison in the French Alps. Ten months later, in 1803, the Haitian leader died.

“In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of the black liberty in St.Domingue- it will spring back from the roots, for they are numerous and deep.”

- Toussaint L’Ouverture

“In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of the black liberty in St.Domingue- it will spring back from the roots, for they are numerous and deep.”

- Toussaint L’Ouverture

After Toussaint’s death, Haiti was restored to French domination and slavery was re-implemented. However, The taste of freedom that Toussaint had enabled the

Haitians to feel was not in vain. They continued to fight the French in a brutal revolution.

After Toussaint’s death, Haiti was restored to French domination and slavery was re-implemented. However, The taste of freedom that Toussaint had enabled the

Haitians to feel was not in vain. They continued to fight the French in a brutal revolution.

The Impact of Change•The country was crippled by years of war, its agriculture devastated, its formal

commerce nonexistent, and the people uneducated and mostly unskilled.•Six months later, Napoleon decided to give up his possessions in the New World. He was busy in Europe and these far-away possessions were more trouble than

they were worth.• He abandoned Haiti to independence and sold the French territory in North

America to the United States (the Louisiana purchase).

•The country was crippled by years of war, its agriculture devastated, its formal commerce nonexistent, and the people uneducated and mostly unskilled.

•Six months later, Napoleon decided to give up his possessions in the New World. He was busy in Europe and these far-away possessions were more trouble than

they were worth.• He abandoned Haiti to independence and sold the French territory in North

America to the United States (the Louisiana purchase).

REVOLUTION in HAITI1791-1804

The Haitian Revolution marked the only time in

history that African slaves successfully rose

up to overthrow their European oppressors.