List of Toussaint Louverture related pages

Toussaint Louverture Project pages with articles or documents about or from Toussaint Louverture.

Articles & book excerpts

• The Last Days Of Toussaint L'Ouverture - account of a 1859 visit to Fort de Joux (Includes Minutes of the Post-mortem Examination of Toussaint L'Ouverture)
• An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti - excerpts portraying Toussaint Louverture.
• The History and Present Condition of St. Domingo (1837) - Excerpt of 1837 book about Toussaint Louverture and his contemporaries in the Haitian Revolution.

Images

• Portrait by Nicolas Eustache Maurin (1838) after a lost drawing of Toussaint.
• Signature of Toussaint Louverture.
• Painting of Toussaint Louverture and General Thomas Maitland
• Photo of dungeon at Fort de Joux in which Toussaint Louverture died.
• Bust of Toussaint Louverture at Fort de Joux - With the inscription of the famous words by Toussaint Louverture: "In overthrowing me, you have cut down in San Domingo only the trunk of the tree of liberty. It will spring up again by the roots for they are numerous."

Lectures

• 'Toussaint L'Ouverture' A lecture by Wendell Phillips (1861)

Letters and documents by Toussaint Louverture

• Toussaint letter to Biassou during Boukman Rebellion Toussaint asks Biassou for supplies and outlines strategy
• Toussaint dialogue with Léger Félicité Sonthonax (1797) - Toussaint report of a contentious meeting with Sonthonax, before he had the commissioner expelled.
• The Expulsion of Commissioner Roume - letter by Toussaint Louverture (1800).
• Letters to Napolèon Bonaparte:
  • Toussaint letter to Napoleon on the 1801 Constitution - sent with the 1801 constitution to Napoleon.
  • Toussaint Louverture letter to Napoléon from Fort de Joux (1802)

Letters and documents to Toussaint Louverture

• Napoléon Bonaparte letter to Toussaint Louverture (1801) - Letter in which Napoléon Bonaparte anounces the sending of an expeditionary force to retake Saint-Domingue from Toussaint.

Historical documents

• Haitian Constitution of 1801 (English) - during Toussaint Louverture's rule of Saint-Domingue/Haiti.

Miscellaneous

• Ravine-à-Couleuvres - Toussaint battles the French troops of General Leclerc (includes speech by Toussaint before the battle.)
• Charles-Humbert-Marie de Vincent - French engineer and friend of Toussaint Louverture.
• Fort de Joux - French prison in which Toussaint Louverture died.
• To Toussaint Louverture - poem by Wordsworth
• Tobias Lear letter to Madison - reporting on a meeting with Toussaint Louverture.
• Mars Plaisir - Toussaint Louverture's servant, who traveled with him into French captivity at Fort de Joux.