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1776

1776: Toussaint Louverture is recorded as a free man, manumitted by Bayon de Libertat.

1776: Toussaint Louverture is recorded as a free man, manumitted by Bayon de Libertat. His status as a free person of color gave him the mobility and perspective necessary to lead his people.

Source Bell, Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, 18; Dubois, Avengers of the New World, 41; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 28