Amy Wilentz

Toussaint Louverture: the true hero of Haiti

Sudhir Hazareesingh describes how the brave rebel defied Napoleon to lead history’s only successful revolution by an enslaved population

Toussaint Louverture. Credit: Alamy

  • Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

    Sudhir Hazareesingh

    Allen Lane, pp. 427, £25

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