The Haitian Revolution (Revolutions)
Toussaint Louverturewas a leader of the Haitian Revolution. Born in Saint-Domingue, in a long struggle for independence Toussaint led enslaved Africans and Afro-Haitians to victory over French colonisers, abolished slavery, and secured ‘native’ control over the colony, Haiti.Nick Nesbittis Professor of French at Princeton University. He is the editor ofToussaint Louverture: The Haitian Revolutionco-editor ofSounding the Virtual: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Music, and author ofUniversal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment, a study of the political ontology of the Haitian Revolution, andVoicing Memory: History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature, a study of Antillean literature and black Atlantic critical theory.