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Toussaint Louverture
A formerly enslaved person who became the leading figure of the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint Louverture helped lay the foundation for Haiti's independence.
Toussaint Louverture was born circa 1743 at Bréda, near Cap-Français, in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which is modern-day Haiti.12