That series focused on Toussaint L'Ouverture, the former Haitian slave who liberated his nation from French rule.

Dumas was born into slavery, as a result of his mother's status as a Haitian slave.

Those Haitian slaves were sent to the United States by the French, who were competing against England for world hegemony.

The Haitian slave and revolutionary general, Toussaint Louverture, was born on May 20, 1743.

Reports came in of the Haitian slaves having slaughtered their white masters.

In 1791, Haitian slaves rebelled against France, the grandest power of the day, and began the world's only successful slave revolution.

Boylston Prize, circa 1945 for recital of a speech by Haitian slave rebellion leader Toussaint L'Ouverture.

By focusing on society's ordinary and least powerful members - Haitian slaves, the Pequod's crew - he practiced what scholars now call social history, or history from the bottom up.

Brown was born during the same period of time that the Haitian Revolution, which saw Haitian slaves revolting against the French.

The Haitian slaves revolted in 1804 and, under the leadership of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti became the first black independent nation.