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1743-05-20

Toussaint Louverture was born on the Bréda plantation near the Haut-du-Cap, according to Saint-Rémy’s note.

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Toussaint-L’Ouverture (François Dominique), son of Gaou-Guinou, an Arada *nègre* who is said to have been of royal blood, was born on the Bréda plantation, near the Haut-du-Cap, on 20 May 1743. He died in the dungeons of the château de Joux, near Besançon, on 7 floréal, Year XI (27 April 1803), at the age of sixty-one years, less one month and seven days.

Source  ·  p. 108 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 1 (Paris: chez l'auteur, 1854), p. 108; English translation, Rasanblaj.