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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Toussaint Louverture

1743 - 1803

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François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (French: [fʁɑ̃swa dɔminik tusɛ̃ luvɛʁtyʁ], English: ) also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda (20 May 1743 – 7 April 1803), was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution. During his life, Louverture first fought and allied with Spanish forces against Saint-Domingue Royalists, then joined with Republican France, becoming Governor-General-for-life of Saint-Domingue, and lastly fought against Bonaparte's republican troops. As a revolutionary leader, Louverture displayed military and political acumen that helped transform the fledgling slave rebellion into a revolutionary movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Toussaint Louverture has received more than 3,900,658 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Toussaint Louverture is the 57th most popular social activist (down from 51st in 2019), the most popular biography from Haiti (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Haitian Social Activist.

Toussaint Louverture is most famous for being the leader of the Haitian Revolution and freeing Haiti from French rule.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Toussaint Louverture ranks 57 out of 538Before him are Alexey Stakhanov, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Witold Pilecki, Harriet Tubman, Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, and Camilo Cienfuegos. After him are Dominique Pire, Túpac Amaru II, Anneliese Michel, Widukind, Angela Davis, and Lê Đức Thọ.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Toussaint Louverture ranks 9Before him are Jean-Paul Marat, Madame du Barry, Luigi Boccherini, Alessandro Cagliostro, Marquis de Condorcet, and Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria. After him are Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Carl Peter Thunberg, Edmund Cartwright, Nicolai Abildgaard, and René Just Haüy. Among people deceased in 1803, Toussaint Louverture ranks 2Before him is Johann Gottfried Herder. After him are Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Cardinal de Rohan, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Louis I of Etruria, Samuel Adams, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Vittorio Alfieri, and Louis Claude de Saint-Martin.

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In Haiti

Among people born in Haiti, Toussaint Louverture ranks 1 out of 80After him are Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1758), François Duvalier (1907), Jean-Pierre Boyer (1776), John James Audubon (1785), Alexandre Pétion (1770), Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (1762), René Préval (1943), Jean-Claude Duvalier (1951), Jeanne Duval (1820), Faustin Soulouque (1782), and Anacaona (1474).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Haiti

Among social activists born in Haiti, Toussaint Louverture ranks 1