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The French arrested Toussaint Louverture, one of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution

222
years ago

24 August 1802,

The French arrested Toussaint Louverture, one of the most important military and political leaders of the Haitian Revolution. It was a slave revolution in the French colony of Saint-Domingue to liberate territory and abolish slavery. Louverture dies in prison.

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