"Toussaint L'ouverture was the best known leader of haitian revolution. His military and political acumen saved the gains of the first black insurrection in November 1791. His prominent role in the Haitian success over colonialism and slavery had earned him the admiration of friends and detractors alike. Toussaint began his military career as a leader of the 1791 slave rebellion in the french colony of saint-domingue; he was by then a free black man and a jocabin"