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After being a coachman and a driver, Toussaint was freed at the age of thirty-three, and then married Suzanne Simone Baptiste. [2] Together, they had two biological sons, Isaac (1782-1854) and Saint-Jean Toussaint (1791-1804). She had a prior son, Placide (1781-1841, with Seraphim Le Clerc, a man of mixed-race descent), who Toussaint adopted.
Louverture was born into slavery, the eldest son of Hyppolite, an Allada slave from the slave coast of West Africa, and his second wife Pauline, a slave from the Aja ethnic group, and given the name Toussaint at birth. [11] Louverture's son Issac would later name his great-grandfather, Hyppolite's father, as Gaou Guinou and a son of the King of ...
Pierre Victor Malouet attempted to enlist Kina in an abortive scheme to kidnap the adolescent sons of Toussaint Louverture from a military boarding school in France. [1] He subsequently served in the British-occupied French colony of Martinique. In Martinique he married Félicité-Adelaïde Quimard, a local girl of free colored descent.
Gaou Guinou was an African prince who has been claimed to be the grandfather of famed Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture. He may have been in the royal family of Allada as well as a member of the Fon people. He was reportedly captured and enslaved by his brother, Hussar, and his wife, Queen Aitta in 1724.
Toussaint Louverture in 1802, engraving by Pierre-Charles Baquoy. On April 6, 1799, Count de Noé sent a letter to the new strongman of Saint-Domingue, Toussaint Louverture, a former slave from the Bréda plantation. Indeed, Louis-Pantaléon had learned that Toussaint Louverture had taken over the old Noé plantation at Les Manquets.
Moyse (Moïse, Moise) Hyacinthe L'Ouverture (1773 – 1801) was a military leader in Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution.Originally allied with Toussaint L'Ouverture, Moyse grew disillusioned with the minimal labor reform and land distribution for black former slaves under the L'Ouverture administration and lead a rebellion against Toussaint in 1801.
ddLouverture Films, the production company founded by actor Danny Glover and Joslyn Barnes, is moving into television as well as animation, gaming and installation works. With two new principal ...
Suzanne Bélair, called Sanite Bélair, (c. 1781 – 5 October 1802), [1] was a Haitian revolutionary and lieutenant in the army of Toussaint Louverture.. Born an affranchi in Verrettes, Haiti, she married Brigade commander and later General Charles Bélair in 1796.