Profile of the leader of the slave revolt in St. Domingue. Despite a variety of images of Toussaint, none were actually drawn from life (see also other images of Toussaint on this website).
Toussaint L'Ouverture, Haiti (Saint Domingue), early 19th cent.
SI-OB-535
1832
Toussaint L'Ouverture, Haiti (Saint Domingue), early 19th cent.
Iconographie des Contemporains Depuis 1789 Jusqu'a 1820 (Paris, 1832), as published in Wilson Armistead, A Tribute for the Negro: being a vindication of the coloured portion of mankind (Manchester, 1848), between pp. 278 and 279.
English, French
Portraits & Illustrations of Individuals
Caribbean--St. Domingue
Wilson Armistead, A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Coloured Portion of Mankind (Manchester, 1848), 278-279.
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
14-Jul-10
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