EMERGENCE OF USA
POLITICAL EFFECTS OF THE REVOLUTION
Question
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St. Domingue
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Vincent Oge
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Toussaint L’Overture
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Thomas Jefferson
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Detailed explanation-1: -The former slave Toussaint Louverture became a leader of the slave revolt and made himself ruler.
Detailed explanation-2: -Toussaint Louverture (ca. 1743–1803) was a Haitian general and leader of the Haitian Revolution. Toussaint Louverture is thought to have been born enslaved around 1739–1746 on the plantation of Bréda at Haut de Cap on the northern coast of Saint-Domingue, present day Haiti.
Detailed explanation-3: -Toussaint Louverture led a successful slave revolt and emancipated the slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti). 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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Toussaint Louverture 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 Jacobin. Initially allied with the Spaniards of neighboring Santo Domingo, Toussaint switched allegiance to the French when they abolished slavery.
Detailed explanation-5: -The uprising began in 73 B.C. when Spartacus and a small band of slaves escaped from a gladiator school by using kitchen utensils as weapons. Slaves from across the Roman countryside soon flocked to join the revolt, and the rebel army caused panic in the Roman senate after it defeated a militia at Mt.