Toussaint LOuverture

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Tous•saint L'Ou•ver•ture

(Fr. tuˈsɛ̃ lu vɛrˈtür)
n.
(Francis Dominique Toussaint) 1743–1803, Haitian military and political leader.
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"Some future historian in other times, will yet write the name of Touissant L'Overture higher and in purer light than that of any man that has lived up to to-day." For Wilson, the portrait reminded him of the accomplishments of this Great Man, and the anonymous masses who followed him.
A second Haitian revolution: John Brown, Toussaint Louverture, and the making of the American Civil War
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