This the course final. When instructed to list I expect you to list (1,2,3, bulleted or a,b,c). When instructed to discuss you should include: who, what, when, where, why and historical significance.  

Identiy and discuss the historical significance of Toussaint L'Ouverture. 

Toussaint L'Ouverture 1743-1803 was born in the French colony of Saint Dominque. At the verge of the slavery he gained favors from the authority, his godfather, the priest Simon Baptiste engaged him informal learning where he learned reading and writing. During the "Night of Fire" in 1791, the slaves revolted by setting ablaze the plantation houses and the fields that belonged to the enslavers and killed the whites they came across. By this time, L'Ounverture controlled the Eastern half of Santa Domingo Island. He later became the Haitian General and the known leader who played a vital role in the Haitian Revolution. During the initial stages of his tenure, he engaged in war with the French and later France in the fight for the Haitian independence (James, 2018). With his military force, L'ouverture transformed the slave rebellion into a revolutionary movement.

L'Ouverture was motivated by the efforts made by the French Revolutionary ideology and never accepted the abuse experienced at the hands of the white planters. This war involved the whites, free blacks and the slaves continued. He was forced to indulge in the revolutionary affairs and immediately notified as a capable soldier and later alleviated to the military secretary to Georges Biassou, an insurgency leader. He adopted the insurgency plan to ally with Spain and France, later he championed the granting of the citizenship freedoms and rights to the blacks within the empire. He rejected the emancipation of the slaves; he allied with France against Spain from 1794 to 1802, when he dominated the military and the political leadership in the French colony (James, 2018). He declared himself the General in chief of the Army; he ruled the French, ousted the British and captured the Spanish. 1794, he drafted a constitution in which he abolished slavery and declared himself governor in his entire life.