Monday, April 7, 2025, commemorates the 222nd anniversary of the death of Toussaint Louverture, imprisoned at Fort de Joux in ...

“African Mosaic,” which highlights recent acquisitions at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art—depicts the 18th-century Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture. The ...

The population of New Orleans actually doubled in the early 19th century from a belated wave of Saint-Domingue immigrants who had first sought refuge in Cuba; these early "Haitian Americans ... the ...

click image for close-up Although there is a large body of visual materials depicting the Haitian revolution, there are no existing portraits drawn from life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the hero of ...

Toussaint Louverture, also known as Toussaint de Bréda, was a Haitian general who played an important role in the Haitian Revolution, the only known slave uprising in history which led to a fully ...

Q: What was the impact of the Haitian Revolution on Americans, black and white? How did Americans percieve Toussaint? What did Jefferson think about Haiti? A: All of the American newspapers ...

In the 1790s the buttons likely adorned the dressy waistcoat of the ultra-dressy uniform of Toussaint Louverture ... during the period of the French Revolution. Picture buttons were popular ...

Daniel Bayard's "Triumph to Tragedy" five-book saga traces back to a Haitian ancestor from 1689 and explores Haiti from 1771-1845.