Toussaint Louverture
Born enslaved in Saint-Domingue and led the only slave revolt in history to found a state. France took him by trickery and he died in a cell in the Jura; Haiti was independent within a year.
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Born enslaved in Saint-Domingue and led the only slave revolt in history to found a state. France took him by trickery and he died in a cell in the Jura; Haiti was independent within a year.