Forgotten Wars

Haitian Inferno - Liberty and Death in the Haitian Revolution


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What do Voodoo priests, Slaves fighting for their freedom and Napoleon Bonaparte have in common? The Haitian Revolution! After the slaves of Haiti rose up and overthrew their French masters, Napoleon sends a vast army to restore French rules and reimpose slavery. Yet he had underestimated the man the French would come to call the Black Spartacus, Toussaint L'Ouverture

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Forgotten WarsBy James Barton