Toussaint Louverture: The Slave Who Defeated Napoleon | History Documentary
It remains the most successful slave rebellion in human history. Born into bondage, Toussaint Louverture transformed a fractured uprising into an unstoppable military machine, ultimately humiliating the French, British, and Spanish empires. In this feature-length documentary, we explore the sheer tactical genius behind the Haitian Revolution, the brutal fight for the first Black republic, and the man who tore down the colonial world order.
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For further reading, this narrative draws on:
📚 Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
📚 Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
📚 Philippe R. Girard, The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon
📚 Carolyn E. Fick, The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution From Below
📚 Charles Forsdick & Christian Høgsbjerg, Toussaint Louverture: A Black Jacobin in the Age of Revolutions
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:05 The Richest Colony on Earth
00:08:11 The Night the Colony Burned
00:14:22 The Coachman Who Waited
00:22:24 Learning War
00:30:27 Master of the Island
00:37:28 Driving Out the British Empire
00:45:59 The War of Knives
00:56:33 Liberty's Contradiction
01:05:20 Napoleon's Reckoning
01:16:56 The Trap
01:25:34 The Cell at Fort de Joux
01:32:18 The Roots Grow Back
01:43:17 The Silenced Revolution
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