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BRIEFLY NOTED.(Toussaint Louverture)(Brief article)(Book review)
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Toussaint Louverture, by Madison Smartt Bell (Pantheon; $27). The legend of Toussaint Louverture is that of an illiterate slave whose innate military genius enabled the overthrow of the slave system on Saint Domingue, and the rise of the Haitian republic, at the start of the nineteenth century. Bell, who has written a fictional trilogy about the Haitian revolution, reveals a more complex picture: Louverture was a landowner (and slaveowner) most likely ...
- Toussaint Louverture; Chef des Noirs Insurgés de Saint Domingue Paris Jean de...
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Echoes of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution in Melville's "Benito...
- Magazine article from: Leviathan Beecher, Jonathan June 1, 2007 700+ words
...French colony of Saint-Domingue, first with...leadership of Toussaint Louverture, a revolt that...the ruler of Saint-Domingue). But there...connection with Toussaint Louverture and Saint-Domingue. In describing...
- Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Social History Paquette, Robert L. March 22, 2003 700+ words
...prerevolutionary Saint Domingue of two distinctive...plutocrat who died in Saint Domingue one year later leading...the whites; and Toussaint Louverture, the most famous...demographic success of Saint Domingue's free coloreds...
- Toussaint Louverture.(French general imprisoned by Napolean)
- Magazine article from: History Today Norton, Graham Gendall April 1, 2003 700+ words
...French general, Toussaint Louverture, recently snatched...for liberty'. Toussaint Louverture is central to...a colony'--Saint-Domingue, the western...wrote a tragedy, Toussaint-Louverture, in 1850, two...
- Toussaint-Louverture
- Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences January 1, 2008 700+ words
Toussaint-Louverture 1743 – 1803 Toussaint-Louverture was one of the most...the slave rebels in Saint-Domingue ’ s north...January 1, 1804. Toussaint-Louverture became a symbol of...
- From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History Clavin, Matt August 1, 2008 700+ words
From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and...effect of the men and women from Saint-Domingue on New Orleans's government...undoubtedly tried to replicate Saint-Domingue along the Mississippi, but at...
- Le métro de Saint Domingue est-il un éléphant blanc* ?
- Newspaper article from: Haiti Observateur Anonymous September 12, 2007 700+ words
(Sources diverses) - Le mtro de Saint-Domingue doit accueillir 200 000 visiteurs par jour mais il ne...exige normment de dpenses et qui rapporte peu La ville de Saint Domingue, en Rpublique dominicaine, est en tram de construire...
- Medical revolutionaries; the enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint...
- Magazine article from: SciTech Book News December 1, 2006 700+ words
9780252073212 Medical revolutionaries; the enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Domingue. Weaver, Karo K. U. of Illinois Press 2006 163 pages $20.00 Hardcover R475 Midwives, herbalists, mesmerists, and other...
