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Citizen Toussaint

Citizen Toussaint

Broadcast: October 3, 1948
Added: Jan 29 2018

Today's Destination Freedom tells the tale of Toussaint Louverture, the liberator of Saint-Domingue. The story begins in 1801, and Napoléon Bonaparte had come home from his conquering campaign. The little General had come home to check his colonies, rest his troops, and prepare to conquer the west. When they brought him a strange constitution, signed by an unknown man named Toussaint Louverture, the General called in his ministers and officers...