Toussaint Louverture

My work for one of my seminars and that of the class I am TA'ing for are converging at points because I am working on civil war related writings.  One figure, Toussaint Louverture, the Haitian Revolutionary, is becoming an important figure in both of these areas.  I really didn't know much about him before, and it's really too bad that I haven't encountered his name up to now because he is an important figure in history.

I thought I would share this video on his life that was done by PBS because it is a high quality segment on Haiti as the only country to have a successful slave revolution.  It's unique position in history and its tragic recreation of the same inequalities it originally sought to do away with makes it a story worth knowing.  I'm only able to upload a clip, but the full 50-minute show can be found here: http://vimeo.com/48343000