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What role did Toussaint Louverture play in the 1791 slave revolt that started the Haitian Revolution?

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Toussaint Louverture led a successful slave revolt and emancipated the slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. A formidable military leader he turned the colony into a country governed by former black slaves as a nominal French protectorate and made himself ruler of the entire island of Hispaniola.

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