Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haytian Revolutions - Revision history

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 ==See also==
 * [[List of Toussaint Louverture related pages]]
 * [[Frederick Douglass lecture on Haiti (1893)]] - speech by a friend and collaborator of James McCune Smith.
 * [[The Struggle for the Recognition of Haiti and Liberia as Independent Republics|The Struggle for the Recognition of Haiti...]] - An article from 1917 detailing Haiti's struggle to gain international recognition.
 * [[W.E.B. Du Bois on Haiti]] - 1918 article from ''The Negro'', a book by Du Bois.

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 * [[List of Toussaint Louverture related pages]]
 * [[Frederick Douglass lecture on Haiti (1893)]] - speech by a friend and collaborator of James McCune Smith.
 * [[W.E.B. Du Bois on Haiti]] - 1918 article from ''The Negro'', a book by Du Bois.

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 * [[List of Toussaint Louverture related pages]]
 * [[Frederick Douglass lecture on Haiti (1893)]] - speech by a friend and collaborator of James McCune Smith.
 ==External links==

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 &emsp;&emsp; It is impossible, after so long a tax on your patience, to enter on a detailed narration of the conflict which ensued. The hour of trial served only to develop and ennoble the character of Toussaint, who rose, with misfortune, above the allurements of rank and wealth which were offered as the price of his submission; and the very ties of parental love he yielded to the loftier sentiment of patriotism.
-&emsp;&emsp; On the 2d of February, a division of Leclerc's army, commanded by [[General Rochambeau]], an old planter, landed at Fort Dauphin, and ruthlessly murdered many of the inhabitants (freedmen) who, unarmed, had been led by curiosity to the beach, in order to witness the disembarkation of the troops.
+&emsp;&emsp; On the 2d of February, a division of Leclerc's army, commanded by [[General Rochambeau]], an old planter, landed at [[Fort Dauphin]], and ruthlessly murdered many of the inhabitants (freedmen) who, unarmed, had been led by curiosity to the beach, in order to witness the disembarkation of the troops.
 &emsp;&emsp; [[Henri Christophe|Christophe]], one of the generals of Toussaint, commanding at [[Cape François]] [Le Cap], having resisted the menaces and the flattery of Leclerc, reduced that ill-fated town to ashes, and retired with his troops into the mountains, carrying with him 2,000 of the white inhabitants of the Cape, who were protected from injury during the fierce war which ensued.

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 ==External links==
-* Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McCune_Smith James McCune Smith]]
+* Wikipedia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McCune_Smith James McCune Smith]
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 Dr. James McCune Smith (April 18, 1813 – November 17, 1865)  a graduate of the New York African Free School and son of a freed slave, is regarded as having been the first African-American to earn a medical degree in the United States. He was also the first African-American to operate a pharmacy.
-McCune Smith was a prominent author and [[abolitionist]]<br><br>
+McCune Smith was a prominent author and [[abolitionist]] he worked with [[Frederick Douglass]] to establish the National Council of the Colored People.
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