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John E. Fagg
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Professor of History, New York University, New York City, 1946–81. Author of Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic; Latin America: A General History, and others.

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Toussaint Louverture stands in a military uniform with a feathered hat, holding a document and sword, with soldiers and a landscape in the background.
Toussaint Louverture was a leader of the Haitian independence movement during the French Revolutionary era (1787–99), part of the broader wave of Atlantic revolutions that reshaped political authority and social hierarchies in the late 18th century. He played a central role in transforming a large…
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