L'Ouverture
Americannoun
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Yellow fever, he said, gave local armies—such as the one Toussaint L’Ouverture commanded over for Haiti’s liberation—a crucial edge over invaders with immune systems that were new to the virus.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 27, 2023
That includes the comedy, as when Tendayi Kuumba’s Lady in Brown slips into the character of a bookish Black 8-year-old who, in the summer of 1955, conjures an imaginary friend: the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
Daguillard returned several times to his native land to lecture on L’Ouverture and the Haitian revolution and even used his medical background to explore the controversies surrounding the Haitian liberator’s death and autopsy.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021
The main leader of the Haitain Revolution was an ex-slave named Toussaint L’Ouverture.
From Time ● Mar. 2, 2016
I look down at my revised paper about Toussaint L’Ouverture.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
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