86 - Toussaint LOuverture - The Black Napoleon who Freed Haitis Slaves

08/16/19 • 22 min

George Washington, Simon Bolivar, even Pancho Villa; the names of the great North and South American revolutionaries remain globally famous centuries on. But there’s one great New World rebel many have forgotten. He was a nobody who became a somebody only after fifty years’ obscurity. A freed slave who wound up leading the only successful large-scale slave revolt in history. The general who made Haiti the second free colony in the whole of the Americas. His name was Toussaint L’Ouverture, AKA The Black Napoleon.

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