Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution

Toussaint Louverture (the “Black Spartacus”), was one of the main leaders of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), which overthrew slavery and led to the proclamation of the world’s first independent post-colonial state.
The lecture discusses his extraordinary life and legacy, as well as the international impacts of the Haitian Revolution across the 19th and 20th centuries, and how its ideals of equality, justice, and solidarity are still relevant to our times.
A lecture by Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh FBA
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[@chadtep7571]

I bet this man has been through a lot ever since this book has been published. He uncovered so much buried history. I'm forever thankful.

[@spudspuddy]

lol Louverture destroyed Haiti reduced it to eating mud, left to their own blacks created the world's only a 4th !!! world country

[@amarusheeku8605]

This video would've had 25 million likes if it was about the amercan revolution.

[@edgarallenjoe6494]

CLR James' book "The Black Jacobins" is an excellent overview of the whole revolution and its background. I highly recommend it to anyone interested by this lecture.

[@nelliecurrie-bailey6408]

Thank you Gresham College for this enlightening presentation by Dr. Hazareesingh. The Haitian Revolution has always fascinated me . I hope to share his interesting perspective with my students as we are about to begin looking at Toussaint in tomorrow's class.

[@anettejean-francois3526]

Justice pour président jovenel moïse justice pour Haïti justice pour peuple Haïtien justice la jeunesse haïtienne

[@micka6198]

The world will soon know the true power of Haiti and its people.....

[@SuperMookles]

we've been waiting for 200 years.

[@daviddebe8603]

It is very alluring to freshen my knowledge of my learning on the story of one my heroes. This is a very accurate depiction of what I have learned in Haiti. Awesome presentation!

[@papi8659]

Superb, thought provoking and insightful.

[@cag1980]

I want to thank you for a research thoroughly and passionately done. I was born, raised and studied in Haiti, yet I learned so much from your presentation

[@stephanebelizaire3627]

We have 2 entities in Mr General Toussaint Louverture, first the Freedom Fighter, then, the Peace Maker. Despite everything, He succeeded in both. It's important to notice this fact. Vivat and Cheers for General Louverture !

[@justavictorin2973]

Thank you for this presentation. Learned a lot about the man.

[@Westfale08]

This was a wonderful interesting lecture. Thank you very much for upload.

[@marinecorps74]

Haiti needs a movie (big screen) Jamie Foxx

[@chazayah5985]

Not In this world

[@ralphsaintfelix3105]

Why not talking about Jean Jacques Dessaline?

[@saoudefrancois]

He came after him

[@JEBalynce]

Because he’s talking about Toussaint

[@Blesses07]

Thank you I can share it with my children

[@charliel4103]

Vive Emperor Jacques I, vive Jean Jacques Dessalines

[@rodneyjean-baptiste4567]

Toussaint Louverture was the mastermind behind the success of Haiti's independence. Dessalines was the finisher. Haiti inspired many nations all over the world to earn their independence notably the South American nations.

[@fedorremy1994]

What are you talking about bro its not that

[@Anpu1804]

@@fedorremy1994 when you see the colonizers give praises to toussaint l’ouverture more than Dessalines , you need to learn 1 thing or two how they do it with Martin Luther king but not Malcom x

[@wilsonmezil260]

22😀😀😀

[@jaquechimene9448]

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[@jean-christophepinchinat7979]

Yet Toussaint was not seeking independance, he was seeking equality and freedom, but remain optimistic about haitians to be recognized as free eqaul french. Dessalines and others were not optimistic ad wanted independance. The Kidnapping (french betrayal) or Toussaint was the catalitic event that co firmed to Dessalines that they would never be free without total independance

[@michaelpoitevien9603]

Fantastic story.

[@mitchyguacanaguaric8598]

Talking about Dessalines the Haitian revolution father ! I'm Haitian I know you like Toussaint louverture; perhaps, you have your reason for that!!! My only question ❓ for you! The Haitian people know that Dessalines it's the revolution father, but for you it's the contrary ?

[@jeanmariechery9817]

thank you

[@wilsonthemax5400]

Nice to hear

[@jeanlouisojdj]

Interested. Pretty impressive

[@clairecajilus4043]

We are the choosing generation

[@jaimienommik1578]

Amen to that Sis!! 💖💖💖💖

[@Namaerica]

So very interesting and all completely new to me. Thank you.

[@joedagger863]

That's why they are killing us

[@moisepicard]

🇭🇹 VIVE LA HAÏTI ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️... 🇭🇹

[@laurenceguillez]

Very interesting and essential thank you

[@julainemilbin9153]

General Jean Jacque Dessaline is the Father of Independence Haiti

[@mlisesaintase9408]

Toussaint Louverture was our hero

[@brucelydelma6774]

I realy want one of this of histury

[@frenelpierre1996]

Vive Jean Jacques Dessalines le père de l'indépendance de l'humanité Vive Haïti 🇭🇹🌾🌾🇭🇹

[@jayydamour4195]

Toussaint was a mason believing the French would cooperate with him due belief and thinking masons are brother hood but they turned around on him and took him to be prison in France 🇫🇷 and he died in prison from the cold 🥶 prison.

[@denisdeg346]

We talk more about Toussaint Louverture than Jean Jacques Dessalines, because he is the Pioneer of the stuggle for freedom and Dessalines is coming after in the battle. We can't talk about haitian revolution without talking Toussaint, Dessalines , Capois,.....

[@Cooliegeez]

Why are they refused to talk about Dessalines. The One who slapped all of them and spit on their face.

[@WilliamGarrow]

His book is about Toussaint.

[@cag1980]

I heard that Toussaint studied in France for a while. He has a beautiful handwriting.

[@wallyg5085]

😂 if you count interrogation from his prison cell in Fort de Joux in the French Alps as education…then yes. Toussaint became very educated on the ways of French Treachery 😂

[@clairecajilus4043]

Justice for president jovenel moise go in Amazon ask for the Constitution Haitian 1804

[@jeanrolguivertus4157]

Never talk about Jean Jacque Dessaline, only Toussaint. Jean Jacque Dessaline is the father of independence

[@marc111863]

I c your point. But,Toussaint was the Revolutionary, while Dessalines was the Finisher. Toussaint was the Strategist. Cependant, ils sont tous nos Unforgettable Heroes.

[@capoislamort100]

@@marc111863 exactly, Toussaint laid the foundation for a free Haiti. He mentored all of his generals on how to deal effectively with the Europeans.

[@JoJo-rw4sf]

When you are in the middle of a browle, you may not be the one who started the browle; However, if you come out as the winner, you have to be recognized

[@JoJo-rw4sf]

Sorry for misspelling the word browle for brawl. My mind was based on something else

[@dieulensvictor]

Toussaint was the mastermind

[@brucelydelma6774]

How can l buy a book of this book of your plaese

[@capoislamort100]

The British navy “assisted” General Dessalines during the final phase of the war.

[@clairecajilus4043]

One day the true going out

[@juniordesir6966]

He managed not to say a word about Jean Jacques Dessaline,the successor of Toussaint, how come to talk about Haitian revolution and Dessaline is not in it ? That’s really curious.

[@WilliamGarrow]

Because his book is about Toussaint. Maybe he mentions him in his book.

[@PetroicaRodinogaster264]

really you are very ignorant. He is talking about Toussaint that is why.

[@yarrowwitch]

Marvellously interesting talk, marred slightly by a lot of "Er...er...um."

[@invisiblehandofadamsmith]

When Napoleon send troops to fight with him mainly poles. Poles said we are fighting for freedom and they chenged sides and fought french heh go to Haiti and there are still Polish ancestors heh

[@guibertquesner4714]

There is no way Dominican should act and treated Haitian people like this because no matter what they are neighbor

[@carolinshining-warner2020]

Gresham lectures pre-covid had the best audio quality. Same room, same mic. Now, they move around rooms and the audio is terrible. This one, for example is metallic, nerds gain adjusted. Sad they cannot meet their prior high standards.

[@Elonmuskasseater69]

Interesting

[@sesanetpremye6687]

❤️

[@kabentime288]

How you been talking about Toussaint for hours never mention Dessaline 🤔 once lol.. without Dessaline the legacy of Toussaint will never be great like that( Dessaline se papa liberte)

[@Ejeby]

3:45 most were born in Africa; when the revolution happened in France 1789 liberty equality fraternity, the French DENIED the Africans; so August 1791 Bois-Caiman demand the same rights as French citizens 5:45 1794 French National Assembly in proclaims the abolition of slavery, 1 year after realizing they have no option 7:00 Toussaint Louverture was born sometime in the 1740s

[@yolandepaul1370]

Papa ,please guardian of gate

[@archangecamilien1879]

9:37 or so: I think Hidalgo was also in his fifties by the time the revolution happened, though I'm not sure...

[@joseliejustin1806]

You didn't say anything about Jean Jaques desaline

[@carolinehyson8399]

💯💫💯💫👍

[@Che4571]

Where is Dessaline stand this history?

[@whitepanties2751]

Toussaint was actually starved to death as a prisoner in France. An inspiring man. Sad that the reality of Haitian independence since his day has, like that of many African countries, been so dire. Hence this talk may be like giving a lecture on what a great man Nelson Mandela was without mentioning the failures of the post-Apartheid black regimes in the modern South Africa that Mandela helped to create.

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

I think insofar as Haitis development goes we can’t deny the interference of it’s economic growth due to France and also the United States. South Africans is a work in progress.

[@micheletprinvil3075]

😮😮

[@curtiswilson2504]

The master mind haytien was emperor jean Jacques Dessalines

[@sharlyndable578]

Toussaint Louverture has nothing to do with Saint Domingue at that time the island used to be name Hispaniola

[@USA50_]

19:00 Why did it succeed? I don't think it succeeded in any sort of long-term way. One has to remember the difference between idealism, political viability. Thanks 😊🇺🇸 🇭🇹

[@marieassouman645]

Thank for your attempt to tell our history, however you seem to have forgotten that Toussaint was captured, he couldn't possibly win the revolution being a POW at fort du jour, it was jean Jacques Dessalines the greatest general ever, and friends who won the for us not Toussaint. Gen. Toussaint wanted to be a diplomat trusting the enemy, he failed to realize trusting the enemy is never an option Sirach 12: 10-11. Again, thanks for your effort.

[@JunaTabTheChosenOne]

That’s right you’re correct,they can tried telling our story all they want but now most of us know better history confirmed it they’re the last people I’d let telling me about my history nice try though why don’t he tell how the great revolutionary Jean Jacques Desaline destroy a lot of them criminals what is he going to tell us next petion was the greatest too?

[@monpremierdevallon3117]

I listen to you carefully, you made a big mistake in your book SIR. What you do with JeanJacques Dessalines aferter the deportation of Toussaint Louverture? Wuthout Dessalines your book doen't have no sense professor.

[@aeliusromanus9338]

And they have achieved a wonderful level of progress and enlightenment with their revolution. Congratulations.

[@outnabout576]

They could have if the us did not have both knees on their necks

[@nightingaleofficial3604]

Such a hater 🙄🙄🙄

[@tovensondorce7025]

I believe this guy don't tell the truth because he not talking about Jean Jacques

[@USA50_]

2:13 Why do academics always champion numerous revolutionary movements which failed (but) overtly criticize the few revolutionary movements which succeeded? Always found it very much about Anti-Westernism than about unifying values which keep respective locales in stable order. People fawn over the French Revolution but it failed over, over again. Yet, they criticize the American Revolution (even though it succeeded). Was it perfect? No, but it succeeded. Thanks. G-d Bless America E Pluribus Unum 🇺🇸❤️🦅⭐🗽❤

[@ianhopcraft9894]

I would be interested to learn about your main criteria for 'success' and 'failure'.

[@radiotelekalfoulimyekonesa7725]

Toussaint died before Haiti became independent. Why don’t you mention General Jean-Jacques Dessalines’name, who fought the Battle of Vertieres and defeated the French army?

[@Worldwidefrdom1]

Whose tousain louverture,fake news,Jean Jaques dessaline and Marc andal

[@louloupetitfrere]

After Toussaint Louverture Jean Jacques Dessalines is finish the revolision and is firs Président of Haïti .

[@samycelestin8852]

TOUSSAINT EST LE PREMIER GÉNÉRAL NOIR FRANÇAIS AUSSI DEVENU PREMIER GOUVERNEUR FRANÇAIS ; NOMMÉ PAR NAPOLÉON; C'ÉTAIT AUSSI UN RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE QUI À VOULUT QUE LES NOIRS TRAVAILLENT LIBREMENT POUR LA MÉTROPOLE OU LA FRANCE.

[@curtiswilson2504]

And you head he says hayti= montage

[@curtiswilson2504]

They stole’s everything for us

[@laurenceguillez]

The English they are very quick at showing problems with French history they should also look at themselves and recognize that they were just as bad if not worse

[@tcm81]

What's this 'the English' and 'the French'. Those people have been dead for 200 years. Do you go to Norway and say to people, 'well you point the finger at me, but look at the crimes the Vikings committed'.

[@penzancegunner857]

England, the first country to outlaw slavery in the history of the world and also spent a fair but of money implementing it on the seven seas. The rest of the world followed suite afterwards. If it wasn't for the industrial revolution and end of slavery, both thanks to Britain, we would probably still have slavery today.

[@laurenceguillez]

Of course the English are so superior but they weren’t really as I have said above thank you for your comment let’s stop there

[@tcm81]

@@laurenceguillez who hurt you?

[@jhb1493]

@@laurenceguillez Lectures people pedantically, then acts all superior and shuts it down. Classic. Notice how the English were not a factor in this story? Would you like every single topic ever addressed in future - however unrelated - to include a section about how the English are just as bad if not worse? If you think this lecture is somehow showing that the British don't examine the dark side of their own colonial past, you are every bit as dumb as your OP makes you sound. BTW - go look at any former French colonial possession and any former English colonial possession and see how most of them are doing today. Were the British just as bad if not worse? Sure. They were also LIGHT YEARS BETTER.

[@italktoomuch6442]

The Haitian revolution also succeeded in part because the white settlers were internally fractured themselves in a way that they weren't in other colonies.

[@ianhopcraft9894]

and perhaps the enslaved could not be turned against an indigenous population because by that time they'd all be killed?

[@jayydamour4195]

He got captured because he’s a masons and believe the French masons are his brothers. And they would understand him

[@chadunderwood.]

a weird conference

[@clairecajilus4043]

We are 100% Jewish

[@Simplicity_65]

We are Isrealites

[@ricardocastillo1120]

The black spartacan

[@semtetorecordz]

they want to stifle haitian history so don't mention dessaline

[@manatee2500]

Haitians have their 1804 but little else these days.

[@charliel4103]

The red and blue in the south American flags is a symbolic thank you to Hayti from Simon Bolivar for liberating them. Greece and other nations that exist because of Hayti would not agree with your statement.

[@nightingaleofficial3604]

Another hater 🙄🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@chazayah5985]

These demons love telling other people story

[@roneledouard5082]

Talk about white history

[@Honeyoxo32105]

Dessalines was the father Haytian people all the glory should go to him not Toussaint Louverture that's why L'Occident bury his name for over 40 years stop feeding people with the fake story.

[@clairecajilus4043]

Your guys liar about the haitian story

[@carlosencarnacion7902]

A lot of false and misleading statements. The French Revolution abolished slavery in Saint Domingue, but the plantations owners, white colonists and other opposed it, they have to send a commissioner to implement the abolition.

[@maestro301]

napoleon reestablished slavery and sent forces to reinstate slavery in the Caribbean. He succeeded in Guadeloupe and Martinique but failed miserably in Saint Domingue.

[@carlosencarnacion7902]

@@maestro301 Napoleón Bonaparte was the head of the counterrevolution, which means he was in alignment with the “grand blanc” and other segments in Saint Domingue that don’t want slavery to end. Still erroneous to state that the French Revolution didn’t end slavery, that’s more propaganda than history.

[@maestro301]

​@@carlosencarnacion7902 I agree that the French revolution ended slavery. However, France remains the only country to have ended slavery after a revolution and reinstating it... leading to the loss of Saint Domingue (Haiti) its most profitable colony due to another revolt there to end slavery. Napoleon being a counter-revolutionist doesn't erase the fact that he was the leader of France... and is still recognized as one of its greatest. So yeah, France reinstated slavery after abolishing it.

[@jeancherubin3161]

@@maestro301 Il serait plus véridique de dire que les commissaires ont pris acte de la liberté des insurgés de Saint Domingue à la suite du soulèvement général du 22 aout 1791.

[@jayydamour4195]

🤩🤔🤔🤔🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾. If the French abolish slavery their would not have been jean Jacques desalin who is faaaaarrrrrr greater than Toussaint’s louverture. And I noticed no white historians want to talk about desalin.

[@spudspuddy]

black history month, well that's 2 minutes i'll never get back, barrel scrapping, maybe a lesson on their only contribution to their race, mud biscuits

[@myownfashionclosetllc5108]

This story is very misleading because Jean Jacque Dessaline is who freed Haiti from slavery, & the one Haiti talk the most about. Toussaint was a traitor. Why don't you talk about Jean Jacque Dessaline? Please, keep doing your research, you seemed to be afraid of telling the true story.

[@annecontent7387]

Dominican republic is not a country because they don't have one Haiti give them a peace of our land were they are belong to Haiti we dit not went to faith we let them stay there Haiti including Santo Domingo it is our territory to

[@andrewatsonsainvil8085]

You don't know history exactly .why you're talking like this ?

[@donbensnazaire9962]

Please stop lying about Haitian revolution if you want to be a speaker get more knowledge

[@zikkopackage3414]

Toussaint was never the leader of the Haitian revolution. Dessalines was !!! In fact toussaint was a traitor

[@desulmeestime4889]

Bnjou frè enel e si u reve wap lave chevew nn dómi apresa u mare yo a tral wouj

[@desulmeestime4889]

Esi u reve wap lave bò lanmè nn u chita nn labou sal e se rad mennaj u wap lave wap chante svp ki sa sa vle di

[@franceamenamengloireadieum410]

WOW! I need this book in my library. Thank you for getting & sharing the HAITIAN HISTORY so perfectly 👍🙏❗

[@Messiah-vi9mk]

It was actually George Biassou

[@user-lu6fj3hf3j]

This guy should not be giving lectures on the revolution. The second time I watched him. His first lecture was so bigoted.

[@ianhopcraft9894]

Is there an example at 5.20 "..a lot of white settlers are killed.."?

[@brucelydelma6774]

How can l buy a book of this book of your plaese