Born a slave on a plantation in Santo Domingo, Toussaint Louverture was the first black leader to defeat the forces of a European colonial empire; thanks to his hard work and his desire to 'uproot the tree of slavery', himself freed in 1776, subsequently becoming the leader of the revolution and then the liberator of slaves in 1793, the abolition of slavery was voted by the Convention in 1794; Toussaint throughout his life, through his efforts, will have enabled the Dominican Republic to achieve its Independence in 1804, thus becoming the first independent black Republic. https://www.humanite.fr/node/421911