Haitian Revolution: Recent Episodes
Jean Maurice Sanon
Throughout the struggle for emancipation Toussait spoke to organize and armed the black slaves under the slogan of: « LIBERTY ».
The first fights reveal the military talents of a 48 year _old named Francois Toussaint LOUVERTURE. He receive a basic éducation. When the insurrection broke out’ he didn’t take long for him to demonstrate his courage and his talents as a strategist. I invite you to pay attention to the narration.
History is important because it helps us as individual understand why our current society reflect the action of the past. The colony was before the revolution’ the most prosperous of the French overseas possession thanks to its coffee and sugar cane plantations and it many slaves.