Ouverture

In 1802, after L'Ouverture's capture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines became revolutionary leader.

Letter 129 2009

Resistance was also expressed in the domestic sphere: Toussaint L'Ouverture's revolution encouraged enslaved Afro-Caribbeans in Kingston to "not do anything but listen" to the tabletalk of whites.

London-Kingston-Caracas: The Transatlantic 2006

Always looking out for his financial interests, President Jefferson tried to come to France's assistance in helping to put down Toussaint L'Ouverture's nascent democracy in Haiti by means of enforcing a blockade on goods produced by the "Black Republic" and starving them out.

May 2004 2004

Toussaint l'Ouverture's occupation of Santo Domingo occasioned a new exodus of white families who were fearful of what might happen under negro rule.

Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich

Toussaint l'Ouverture's work of liberation in Hayti, advises the English to revoke the Emancipation Act in Jamaica, and counsels the Americans to lash their slaves -- better, he admits, made serfs and not saleable by auction -- not more than is necessary to get from them an amount of work satisfactory to the Anglo-Saxon mind.

Thomas Carlyle John Nichol 1863

In answer to Madame L'Ouverture's frequent speculations as to what

The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance Harriet Martineau 1839

They both slept at last, and were wakened in broad daylight by the gouvernante, who entered in great trepidation, to say that there had been a plot against the Commander-in-chief; -- that the window of his chamber had been entered at two o'clock by a party of mulattoes, who had all been seized by L'Ouverture's soldiers.

The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance Harriet Martineau 1839

Bellair hastened to lead Madame L'Ouverture's horse round to the other side of the house, where no prickly vegetation was allowed to encroach.

The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance Harriet Martineau 1839

Voices of lamentation and of passion were heard in the corridor, which quickened L'Ouverture's movements more than threats or insults could have done.

The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance Harriet Martineau 1839

L'Ouverture's voice was the first heard, after the sudden hush.

The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance Harriet Martineau 1839