Black History, Caribbean Style
Blacks from the West Indies often feel left out of U.S. black-history celebrations. Here's a West Indian perspective for Black History Month.
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The Black Commander, 1793
A dynamic figure in the liberation of the Haitian people, Toussaint L'Ouverture, a former slave, joins a Spanish force invading the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) and later emerges as the leader of Saint-Domingue, ruling without French colonial control.














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