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Suzanne Simone Baptiste Louverture (around 1742 – May 19, 1816 in Agen, France) was the wife of Toussaint Louverture and the "Dame-Consort" of the French colony of Saint-Domingue.
2 de mar. de 2020 · Suzanne Simone Baptiste Louverture (1742?-1816), the wife of Toussaint Louverture (1743?-1803), was arrested with her husband during the Haitian revolution in 1802. Napoleon Bonaparte sent General Charles Leclerc to apprehend Louverture and deport him to the French Alps.
26 de out. de 2007 · Suzanne Simone Baptiste Louverture (born around 1742 - May 19, 1816 Agen, France) was the wife of Toussaint Louverture. Some sources claim she might have been a relative (perhaps a niece) of Pierre Baptiste, Toussaint's father or godfather.
Suzanne Simon-Baptiste, ou Suzanne Louverture (1752-1816), est l'épouse du général Toussaint Louverture, gouverneur-général de la colonie française de Saint-Domingue. Lorsque celui-ci se proclama gouverneur-général à vie en 1797, elle occupa un rôle identique à celui de « Première dame ».
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Popular history has it that Louverture was born sometime in May 1743 on the Bréda plantation in Haut-du-Cap in Saint-Domingue. According to Louverture’s son, Isaac, a key source of information about his father’s life, however, Louverture was born in the colony in 1746, the grandson of an Arada prince named Gaou-Guinou. Although Toussaint, called To...
In February 1794 the French Jacobin government had no choice but to abolish slavery throughout its empire. Viewing this as a distinct victory, Louverture and his troops joined forces with a French general, Étienne Laveaux, to defeat forces from both England and Spain. It is Laveaux who is said to have baptised Toussaint with the name ‘l’ouverture’,...
Louverture would pay dearly for this opposition to Leclerc, both personally and politically. By mid-February, Leclerc officially decreed both Louverture and Christophe to be ‘outlaws’. By spring, French newspapers were regularly printing articles defaming Louverture: one declared that ‘the cruelty and barbarity of Toussaint are without example’, an...
The government’s newspaper, Le Moniteur Universel, was not only circumspect about Louverture’s death, but completely silent. The Minister of the Marine had published a letter about ongoing affairs in Saint-Domingue in the Moniteur on 25 April, in which he made no mention of the fate of the revolutionary leader who had recently died in French captiv...
It would be tempting to end with the ensuing victories of the Haitian Revolution that led to the creation of the first slavery-free nation in the Americas; or to call upon the famously apocryphal phrase that Louverture is said to have uttered while boarding the ship to his captivity: ‘In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trun...
The Torture of Suzanne Louverture. After Charles Williams, Boney’s Inquisition.Another Specimen of his Humanity on the Person of Madame Toussaint. London: ‘Pubd. Octr. 25th 1804 by by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly’, 1804. Hand colored etching.
Robin’s forthcoming book will be the first biography of Suzanne Simone Baptiste, also known as Madame Toussaint Louverture, a heretofore neglected yet influential figure in the history of Blackness in Europe.
