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Francois-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, 1743 – 1803, aka Toussaint LOuverture or Toussaint Breda A leader of the Haitian Revolution in 1791, a successful anti-slavery and anti-colonial insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue Illustration by Gordon Ross, American artist and illustrator 1873-1946, from Living Biographies of Famous Rulers.