Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803) won international renown in the Haitian fight for independence. He led thousands of former slaves into battle against French, Spanish, and English forces, routing the Europeans and seizing control of the entire island of Hispaniola. L'Ouverture became governor and commander-in-chief of Haiti before officially acknowledging French rule in 1801, when he submitted a newly written constitution to Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) and the French legislature for ra...

John Relly Beard (1800-1876) was an English Unitarian minister who wrote more than thirty books in his lifetime, including "The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture" in 1853 and several reference volumes on a variety of topics.His masterpiece "The Autobiography of Satan" was published in 1872 and the goal of the book is clearly described during the Preface: 'As this book is intended not so much for scholars as the general public, I have not attempted more than a series of readable sketche...

Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743–1803) won international renown in the Haitian fight for independence. He led thousands of former slaves into battle against French, Spanish, and English forces, routing the Europeans and seizing control of the entire island of Hispaniola. L'Ouverture became governor and commander-in-chief of Haiti before officially acknowledging French rule in 1801, when he submitted a newly written constitution to Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) and the French legislature for ra...