SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Toussaint Louverture

1743 - 1803

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François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (French: [fʁɑ̃swa dɔminik tusɛ̃ luvɛʁtyʁ], English: ) also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda (20 May 1743 – 7 April 1803), was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution. During his life, Louverture first fought and allied with Spanish forces against Saint-Domingue Royalists, then joined with Republican France, becoming Governor-General-for-life of Saint-Domingue, and lastly fought against Bonaparte's republican troops. As a revolutionary leader, Louverture displayed military and political acumen that helped transform the fledgling slave rebellion into a revolutionary movement. Along with Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Louverture is now known as one of the "Fathers of Haiti". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Toussaint Louverture is the 35th most popular social activist (up from 90th in 2019), the most popular biography from Haiti (up from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Haitian Social Activist.

Toussaint Louverture is most famous for being the leader of the Haitian Revolution and freeing Haiti from French rule.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Toussaint Louverture ranks 35 out of 840. Before him are Margaret Sanger, Shirin Ebadi, Charlotte Corday, Thích Quảng Đức, Emiliano Zapata, and Bacha Khan. After him are Jan Palach, Ferdinand Lassalle, Irena Sendler, Omar Mukhtar, Simon Wiesenthal, and Sadako Sasaki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Toussaint Louverture ranks 7. Before him are Thomas Jefferson, Antoine Lavoisier, Madame du Barry, Jean-Paul Marat, Luigi Boccherini, and Alessandro Cagliostro. After him are Marquis de Condorcet, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Nicolai Abildgaard, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, and Carl Peter Thunberg. Among people deceased in 1803, Toussaint Louverture ranks 2. Before him is Johann Gottfried Herder. After him are Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Louis I of Etruria, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, Cardinal de Rohan, Vittorio Alfieri, Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena, and Ami Argand.

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In Haiti

Among people born in Haiti, Toussaint Louverture ranks 1 out of 94. After him are François Duvalier (1907), Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1758), Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (1762), Jean-Claude Duvalier (1951), René Préval (1943), John James Audubon (1785), Alexandre Pétion (1770), Jean-Pierre Boyer (1776), Jeanne Duval (1820), Jean-Bertrand Aristide (1953), and Ariel Henry (1949).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Haiti

Among social activists born in Haiti, Toussaint Louverture ranks 1. 

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