For nearly 80 years no scholar has written an English-language biography of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture. This fact is even more remarkable when you consider Louverture’s contemporary ...

One of the many ironies of the life of Toussaint Louverture is that he was a governor of a French colony who never set foot in France, until he was imprisoned in the Jura mountains shortly before his ...

My career in journalism has been varied and wide-ranging. I’m an author, a documentary maker, a reporter, and my work has sparked four commissions of inquiry in Canada. My touchstone in journalism has ...

The French president paid tribute to Toussaint Louverture, the leader of the Haitian Revolution, but said nothing about the lingering effects of France’s slaving past. By Constant Méheut and Catherine ...

A gripping biography of the leader of the slave revolt that led to Haiti’s independence, described as ‘the first black superhero of the modern age’ No figure from the 18th-century “age of revolution” ...

A sculpture of Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803), on display in La Rochelle. Photo by Xavier LEOTY / AFP President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday paid tribute to Toussaint Louverture, who died in 1803 - ...

Somewhere among the boxes of notebooks in my study is the rough draft of a paper from the 1990s in which I started to pull together a paper on "Toussaint Louverture," a play by C.L.R James produced in ...

The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting 300 people who have made New Orleans New Orleans, featuring ...