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1802-Jun.-07

1802-Jun.-07: Toussaint Louverture is arrested by Brunet and deported to France in chains.

1802-Jun.-07: Toussaint Louverture is arrested by Brunet and deported to France in chains. His betrayal and subsequent death in captivity failed to stop the momentum of the revolution he had led. Significance:Re moved the central revolutionary leader but failed to restore French authority. Nuance: Fick emphasizes that the revolution did not collapse with Toussaint’s arrest. The struggle had deeper social roots among the formerly enslaved majority.

Source Bell, Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, 145; Dubois, Avengers of the New World, 274; Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies, 26; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 30; Fick, The Making Of Haiti, pp 268-273