More information is available on the publisher's website. In 2014, he was a research fellow at the DuBois Institute at Harvard University. A native of the Caribbean, he studied in France and the United States. Philippe Girard shows how Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman into revolutionary hero as the mastermind of the bloody slave revolt of 1791. Discover the English Audiobook at Audible. Yet he managed to secure his freedom and establish himself as a small-scale planter. Born into bondage in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), the richest colony in the Western Hemisphere, he witnessed first-hand the torture of the enslaved population.
In 1802, he was exiled to France, dying soon after as one of the most famous men in the world, variously feared and celebrated as the "Black Napoleon." Philippe Girard is a professor of history at McNeese State in Louisiana and the author of four books on Haitian history. Toussaint Louverture as its meant to be heard, narrated by Paul Woodson. Toussaint Louvertures life was one of hardship, triumph, and contradiction. Louveture's ascendency was short-lived, however.
By 1801, he was general and governor of Saint-Domingue, and an international statesman who forged treaties with Britain, France, Spain, and the United States-empires that feared the effect his example would have on their slave regimes. In 1791, the unassuming Louverture masterminded the only successful slave revolt in history. In Toussaint Louverture, Philippe Girard reveals the dramatic story of how Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman to revolutionary hero. His example nevertheless inspired anticolonial and black nationalist movements well into the twentieth century.īased on voluminous primary-source research, conducted in archives across the world and in multiple languages, Toussaint Louverture is the definitive biography of one of the most influential men in history.Ī compelling look at an extraordinary historical figure.Toussaint Louverture's life was one of hardship, triumph, and contradiction. But his lifelong quest to be accepted as a member of the colonial elite ended in despair: he spent the last year of his life in a French prison cell. By 1801, Louverture was governor of the colony where he had once been a slave.
He was born a slave on Saint-Domingue yet earned his freedom and established himself as a small-scale planter. Toussaint Louverture's life was one of hardship, triumph, and contradiction.
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