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Toussaint l'Ouverture was born in Bréda, Haiti to enslaved parents.
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Master freed him when he got married.
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Soon after his liberation, Toussaint married Suzanne Simone Baptiste and had two children with her.
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Mulattos and whites of West Province join forces against revolutionaries and rebel slaves. Soon after, Toussaint joins rebel slaves.
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National Assembly reversed its decision, leaving status of mulattos and free Negroes to discretion of Colonial Assemblies. Whites and black breakout in violence.
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Petits blancs massacre people of color in Port-au-Prince
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This was basically the French Civil Rights movement.
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National Assembly again reverses decision, decrees equality for all freeborn men irrespective of color
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War commences between French Saint-Domingue and Spanish Santo Domingo.
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Joined Spanish army to find a way to end slavery.
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Toussaint deserts the Spanish to join the French
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By 1795, Toussaint controlled most of two provinces.
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In May 1797 Sonthonax named Toussaint Louverture commander-in-chief of the French republican army in Saint-Domingue.
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signed a treaty with the French in Cap-Haïtien, with the condition that there would be no return to slavery.
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While in prison, he died of pneumonia
