Volume 54, Number 9 · May 31, 2007
He Changed the New World
By David Brion Davis
Toussaint Louverture: A Biography
by Madison Smartt Bell
Pantheon, 333 pp., $27.00
The Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804, mostly led by Toussaint Louverture, may well have been the most important single event in the history of New World slavery. Despite the revolution's relatively small scale, its historical influence for some sixty or seventy years can even be compared to that of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Yet the subject still receives scant attention in most history textbooks.
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