Toussaint L'Ouverture (real name Francois Dominique Tousaint) was a Haitian Negro leader. He was born in 1746 a slave on a plantation in Haiti and died in 1803. In 1791 having aided his master and his family to escape, he took part in the Negro insurrection, and in 1794 joined the French republicans. Appointed commander-in-chief of the island by the French Convention in 1797, he drove out the French royalists, the British and the Spaniards, and brought the island of Haiti to a state of peace and prosperity. About 1800 he began to work for Haitian independence, and opposed Napoleon when he tried to re-establish slavery. He was captured by the French in 1802 and sent to France, where he was imprisoned at the Fort of Joux where he died. Research Toussaint L'Ouverture
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