François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, also Toussaint Bréda, Toussaint-Louverture, or Toussaint L’ouverture (20 May 1743 — 7 April 1803), was the leader of the Haitian Revolution. His military genius and political acumen led to the establishment of the independent black state of Haiti, transforming an entire society of slaves into a free, self-governing people. The success of […]
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Feed Tha people Tumaini 20 New Afrikan Liberation Terms of importance: 1. Agent Provocateur : One who joins a suspected group in order to encourage its members to commit illegal acts in which they may then be busted for, he she pretends to be sympathetic towards the aims of the group that he infiltrates. 2. […]
“I freed a thousand slaves – I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” -Harriet Tubman The ‘masters’ of this present-day New Plantation are the corporate elite and their minions; the field slaves are the ordinary people.The insidious role of many so-called ‘mulattos’ on slave plantations in the U.S., […]
Who Will Benefit from Haiti’s Gold Rush? Haitian Government Embraces U.S., Canadian Mining Firms
Radical Black Reading, 2011 Posted: 27 Dec 2011 02:01 PM PST While post-Black vapors have intoxicated contemporary culture, many of our favorite books of 2011 were part of a wave of scholarship that re-evaluated the Black Arts Movement and the Black Power era and took a second look at a long-ago time when “black” was […]
Haiti: The Slave Army of Toussaint L’Ouverture Posted by Mike E on November 20, 2010 Haiti’s slave army in combat “When the slave revolt broke out, Toussaint was already 45–old for a slave in Haiti. He simply took over the plantation–and waited to see what would happen. After several weeks, he decided that there was a […]
