Toussaint Louverture

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Toussaint Louverture

France officially commemorates the bicentennial of the death of a black French general, as Napoleon's prisoner, on April 7th, 1803.

The Chateau de Joux, high in the mountainous region of Franche-Comté close to the Swiss border, was one of the great state prisons of France, along with the Bastille and the Chateau d'If (described

Comments

[mahasin]

<3 Toussaint!

My first introduction to him was actually through the poem in For Colored Girls, which is glorious.

[beuk]

I took a class on Cuba and the Caribbean in college, which of course covered the Haitian Revolution and Louverture. A couple years ago, I saw a show on PBS about the revolution, narrated by Morgan Freeman. I heard that he wants to produce a feature about Louverture, but studios don't think it will appeal to audiences. Bullshit.

[hinoema]

We covered that in my Geography of the Developing World course. Impressive man!

[romp]

I didn't know of him but I do like the story of Haiti's revolution. Why can't we have a movie about this guy, as beuk mentioned, rather than another remake?

[eveofrevolution]