L'ouverture, Toussaint

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Toussaint L'ouverture, François Dominique - c.1744–1803, Haitian patriot and martyr. A self-educated slave freed shortly before the uprising in 1791, he joined the black rebellion to liberate the slaves and became its organizational geniu...