Saint-Jean Louverture - TLP - The Louverture Project
Saint-Jean Louverture (1791 Bréda, Saint-Domingue - January 8, 1804 Agen, France) was the youngest child of Toussaint and Suzanne Louverture. Saint-Jean was deported in 1802 to France with his entire family, he was the second of two children the couple had together.
Placide Louverture - TLP - The Louverture Project
Aug 31, 2006 · Placide Louverture (also Placide Séraphin Louverture or Placide Séraphin Clerc) (December 28, 1781 Le Cap, Saint-Domingue - July 1, 1841 Astafford), the son of Suzanne Louverture and brother of Isaac Louverture, was adopted by Toussaint Louverture, who always treated him like his own son.
Suzanne Simone Baptiste Louverture - TLP - The Louverture Project
Suzanne Simone Baptiste Louverture (born around 1742 - May 19, 1816 Agen, France) was the wife of Toussaint Louverture. Some sources claim she might have been a relative (perhaps a niece) of Pierre Baptiste, Toussaint's father or godfather. A strong family woman, she was fiercely loyal to and deeply in love with Toussaint.
Isaac Louverture - TLP - The Louverture Project
Oct 21, 2007 · Isaac Louverture (1786 Bréda Plantation, Saint-Domingue - September 26, 1854 Bordeaux, France) was the son of Toussaint and Suzanne Louverture. He and his half-brother Placide were sent to France in 1797 to be educated. "A large crowd gathered to see them off, for they were popular on the island."
Jean François Papillon - TLP - thelouvertureproject.org
Jean-François Papillion was an African-born slave that worked in the Papillon plantation, in the North Province of Saint-Domingue. He escaped the said plantation some years before the revolutionary outbreak in Saint-Domingue, living as a maroon until 1791.
Edmond de Saint-Léger - TLP - thelouvertureproject.org
Mar 25, 2009 · Edmond de Saint-Léger - French Commissioner who arrived in Saint-Domingue on November 29, 1791 (with Frédéric de Mirbeck and Roume). His previous post had been Tobago, "where he was a doctor and an interpreter of English."
RWBF:Chapter Five Section 1 - TLP - thelouvertureproject.org
Louverture, having been both a master and a slave, wanted the revolution to accomplish more than establish a state without slavery. He attempted to create a society in which people of all colors and statuses could coexist peacefully.
Jean Pierre - TLP
Pierre Louverture is the brother of Toussaint and he was a colonel of the Spanish Army. He was killed at camp de barade next to Toussaint by an ambush organized by Jean-Francois and Biassou
Toussaint letter to Napoléon on the 1801 Constitution
Sep 11, 2007 · Wanting to protect equality and the freedom of slaves from any attempts on it by Napoléon Bonaparte, Toussaint Louverture had a constitution written for Saint-Domingue, something the Emperor never forgave him for.
The Boukman Rebellion - TLP - The Louverture Project
Jun 13, 2011 · Padre Jean - Led the first recorded slave rebellion in Saint-Domingue in 1676. Toussaint letter to Biassou during Boukman Rebellion; History of the Disasters in Saint-Domingue - Account of the revolutionary events of 1791 from a the view of a French perspective.