Question

What was Toussaint-Louverture before he became a general?

Answer 1

Louverture was born a slave on the French colony of Saint-Domingue, now known as Haiti. He became a free man and a Jacobin, and began his military career as a leader of the 1791 slave rebellion in Saint-Domingue.

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Answer 2

Louverture was a slave before becoming a general