The Wrongful Death of Toussaint Louverture

The hero of the Haitian Revolution’s lonely death in a French prison cell was not an unfortunate tragedy but a cruel story of deliberate destruction. This article is from the June issue of History Today: buy a copy of the issue from our website , or read it via the History Today app, available on Google Play and the App Store. Introduced by History Today editor, Paul Lay. Read by Greig Johnson. Written by Marlene L. Daut. Music: Kai Engel. Image: Portrait of Toussaint Louverture, chromolithograph by George DeBaptiste, c.1870 © Getty Images. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Wrongful Death of Toussaint Louverture is an episode from History Today Podcast by Katie Holyoak.

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This episode was published on Jun 12, 2020.

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