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 ...

Lawrence’s first historical narrative work was "The Toussaint L’Ouverture Series" (1937-1938), comprising 41 tempera paintings, in which he examines Haiti’s fight for independence.

But the revolutionaries in Saint Domingue, led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, were not trying to pull down the power of their absentee masters, but join those masters on an equal footing in the ...

Did you know that a black Haitian Catholic, Toussaint L’Ouverture played a key role in the first successful attempt by a slave population in the Americas and world to win independence from ...

Toussaint L’Ouverture was destined to see out his days within this brutal system, but his skills as a negotiator and communicator saw him rise to the forefront of the resistance movement on the ...

Promoters announced late Wednesday that Saturday’s performance of “L’ouverture de Tussaint” has been postponed so as not to conflict with the Cleveland Guardians/New York Yankees playoff ...

And this is where Toussaint L´Ouverture, Haiti´s revolutionary leader, enters world history. He was a literate, black supervisor on a plantation where his French master seems to have been fairly ...