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Toussaint L'Ouverture
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Tous·saint L'Ou·ver·ture  (t-s l-vr-tür), François Dominique 1743?-1803.
Haitian military and political leader who led a successful slave insurrection (1791-1793) and helped the French expel the British from Haiti (1798). In 1801 he invaded Spanish Santo Domingo and freed the slaves there. He briefly maintained control over the entire island, establishing the first Black-led government in the Americas, before being arrested by Bonapartist agents (1802) and deported to France.
Toussaint L'Ouverture (French) [tusɛ̃ luvɛrtyr]
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(Biographies / Toussaint L'Ouverture, Pierre Dominique (?1743-1803) M, Haitian, POLITICS: revolutionary leader) Pierre Dominique (pjɛr dɔminik). ?1743-1803, Haitian revolutionary leader. He was made governor of the island by the French Revolutionary government (1794) and expelled the Spanish and British but when Napoleon I proclaimed the re-establishment of slavery he was arrested. He died in prison in France
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Initially, we offered tickets for 250 dollars, which covered food, an all-you-can-drink bar and memorabilia, including medallions with the face of Toussaint Louverture (a leader of Haiti's slave revolt in 1791) on one side and Obama's on the other," said Mirline Labissiere, an organizer of the Reality of a Dream ball.
Battle of the balls as inaugural galas woo US revelers by AFP / AFP American Edition
Initially, we offered tickets for 250 dollars, which covered food, an all-you-can-drink bar and memorabilia, including medallions with the face of Toussaint Louverture (a leader of Haiti's slave revolt in 1791) on one side and Obama's on the other," said Mirline Labissiere, an organizer of the Reality of a Dream ball.
Battle of the balls as inaugural galas woo US revelers by AFP / AFP Global Edition
They consider stories, myths, and heroes in literature and their connections to race, nation, and class; aspects of antislavery and anticolonialism in the Revolution; and the political ideologies seen in the texts it produced such as correspondence by Toussaint Louverture and other ex-slaves.
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