Toussaint Louverture (may 20, 1743 – apr 7, 1803)
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Fought to liberate HaitiLed a slave revolt and emancipated slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti). He negotiated for the country to be governed by Black former slaves as a French procterate. Haitian Revolution: 1791-1804
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Date:
may 20, 1743
apr 7, 1803
~ 59 years