Arrest of Toussaint Louverture
1802 · Event
Invited to a parley under safe conduct, Toussaint is seized, shipped to France, and locked in a freezing fortress in the Jura, where he dies within a year. His parting words prove exact: in overthrowing him, France has cut down only the trunk of the tree of black liberty — it will grow back from the roots.
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