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toussaint l'ouverture  

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  • François Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture was an educated freed slave who led the Haitian independence movement during the French Revolution. While Haiti was under his control, he emancipated the slaves and established Haiti as a French protectorate governed by blacks. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Toussaint L'Ouverture]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-BR9N3VVF-N

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