Toussaint Louverture, a former slave, declared himself commander in chief of the French army in Saint Domingue (modern-day Haiti), even though he was ostensibly at war with France. How he did so is ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Mammoth Screen, the British producer behind series including The Serpent and Poldark, is developing a television drama based on the 18th Century slave uprising in Haiti. The story will be ...