Five Extremely Important Figures of the Haitian Revolution

------------------------- Toussaint-L'Ouverture was born in 1743, in the city of Cap Francais, Saint Domingue, to slave parents. Toussaint was self-educated. He acted as physician to the army and became a leader of the Haitian slave revolt, which is a 1791 black slave uprising against French colonial rule. After France abolished slavery in the territory in 1794, Toussaint supported the French rulers of the country against British invaders and was made a general in 1795.He was known as "the …

…Petion overthrew and assassinated Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the emperor of Haiti. When Petion died in 1818, Boyer became president of the south and west of Haiti, and when Henri Christophe killed himself in 1820, he united north, south, and west Haiti into one republic, and he became the president. Boyer paid France to officially recognize the republic of Haiti as a country in 1825, by heavily taxing the Haitian people. They became angry, overthrew his government, and exiled him.