House Slaves - Toussaint Louverture, House Slave, Meno's Slave (Paperback)

Chapters: Toussaint Louverture, House Slave, Meno's Slave. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Francois-Dominique Toussaint Louverture .), also Toussaint Breda, Toussaint-L'Ouverture ( May 20, 1743 April 7, 1803) was the leader of the Haitian Revolution. Born in Saint-Domingue, Toussaint led enslaved blacks in a long struggle for independence over French colonizers, abolished slavery, and secured "native" control over the colony, Haiti. In 1797 while nominally governor of the colony, he expelled the French commissioner Leger-Felicite Sonthonax, as well as the British armies; invaded Santo Domingo to free the slaves there; and wrote a Constitution naming himself governor-for-life that established a new polity for the colony. Especially between the years 1800 and 1802, Toussaint Louverture tried to rebuild the collapsed economy of Haiti and reestablish commercial contacts with the United States and Britain. His rule permitted the colony a taste of freedom which, after his death in exile, was gradually destroyed during the successive reigns of a series of despots. Translated from French "Tous Saints L'Ouverture," his name means "all saints" or "all souls opening." His last words were to his son in France, "My boy, you will one day go back to St. Domingo; forget that France murdered your father." General Toussaint Louverture.Toussaint was born in Breda, Haiti. Tradition says that he was driver and horse trainer on the plantation. His master freed him at age 33, when Toussaint married Suzanne. He was a fervent Catholic, and a member of high degree of the Masonic Lodge of Saint-Domingue. In 1790 slaves in the Plaine du Flowera rose in rebellion. Different forces coalesced under different leaders. Toussaint served with other leaders and rose in responsib...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=141986