Toussaint L'Ouverture François Dominique

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T0291300 (to͞o-săN′ lo͞o-vĕr-tür′), François Dominique 1743?-1803. Haitian military and political leader who led a successful slave insurrection (1791-1793) and helped the French expel the British from Haiti (1798). In 1801 he invaded Spanish Santo Domingo and briefly maintained control over the entire island, establishing the first black-led government in the Americas. After Napoleon's troops invaded, he was arrested and deported to France (1802).