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Latin American Revolutionaries

An excerpt from the forward to The History of Toussaint L’Ouverture by James Stephen, published in 1814.

An excerpt from the forward to The History of Toussaint L’Ouverture by James Stephen, published in 1814.

Citation Information: Stephen, James, excerpt from “The history of Toussaint Louverture,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/cdf688e34089b1260933ef2f9985ca38.

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Courtesy of New York Public Library via HathiTrust.

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An excerpt from the forward to The History of Toussaint L’Ouverture by James Stephen, published in 1814.

An excerpt from J.R. Beard’s biography of Toussaint L'Ouverture that compares L’Ouverture and Napoléon Bonaparte.

A 2005 map created by Michael Siegel that places major battles of the Haitian Revolution during the years 1793 to 1809.

A portrait of Simón Bolívar from 1827.

An excerpt from Simon Bolivar: “El Libertador,” by F. Loraine Petre, published in 1910.

An image of a statue of Simón Bolívar by Pietro Tenerani, excerpted from Rise of the Spanish-American Republics by W.S. Robertson, 1921.

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