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Haiti/Saint-Domingue's revolutionary Toussaint Louverture had an incredible and unlikely rise to power. So here it is explained.★Support on Patreon: patreon.com/williamcfox

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1. Black Spartacus. The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture. Sudhir Hazareesingh. 2020 amzn.to/3RMwKxj
2. The Black Jacobins. CLR James. 1938. (1963 edition) amzn.to/3zvkhI1
3. Toussaint Louverture. Philippe Girard. 2016
4. Toussaint Louverture, A Biography. Madison Smartt Bell. 2008. amzn.to/4cITPcz
5. Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War. Matthew J. Calvin. 2010 amzn.to/3W0e28a
6. Toussaint Louverture. A black Jacobin….Charles Forsdick. Christian Hogsbjerg. 2017 amzn.to/4eGz8jc
7. The Haitian Revolution. A Documentary History. David Geggus. 2014. amzn.to/3xNpavD
8. The French Revolution and Human Rights. Lynn Hunt. 1996 amzn.to/4bmWxmT
9. Constitution of 1801.
10. Toussaint letter to Napoléon on the 1801 Constitution
11. Facing Racial Revolution: Captivity Narratives and Identity in the Saint-Domingue Insurrection. Jeremy D. Popkin Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol. 36, No. 4. 2003
12. Sonthonax 1794 Proclamation. “Au nom de la Republique”
13. Brown Uni. The Other Revolution. British occupation.
14. Departments of Haiti. Wikipedia
15. You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery. Popkin 2010. amzn.to/3L3N0X7
16. Toussaint Louverture. Haitian revolutionary leader. National Museum of African American History & Culture. Visited 6.3.24
17. Michel-Rolph Trouillot. Silencing the Past 1995 amzn.to/4eI1oBW
18. Avengers of the New World, Laurent Dubois 2005 amzn.to/3KX2coV

00:00-1:19 intro
01:20-2:59 housekeeping
3:00-5:09 context
5:10-10:01 early life
10:02-12:16 Revolution, Revolt
12:17-15:41 Toussaint the Public Figure
15:42-19:44 Kings on kings on kings
19:45-29:17 Roundabout Emancipation
29:18-31:51 FRENCH AGAIN
31:52-36:40 Ejecting Allies
36:41-40:44 Zenith of Power

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