The treatment of Toussaint finds a parallel only in the murder of the Duke D'Enghien. Treacherously seized by Leclerc, he was hurried on board a vessel by night, and conveyed to France, where he was confined in a cold subterranean dungeon, at Besançon, where, in April, 1803, he died. Domingo, although it failed of its intended object, proved fatal to the negro chieftain. The miserable attempt of Napoleon to re-establish slavery in St. From this period, until 1801, the island, under the government of Toussaint, was happy, tranquil, and prosperous. Domingo, and, as such, signed the Convention with General Maitland for the evacuation of the island by the British. In 1797, Toussaint L'Ouverturne was appointed, by the French government, General-in-Chief of the armies of St. The white man had discovered in Toussaint many noble qualities, and had instructed him in some of the first branches of education and the preservation of his life was owing to the negro's gratitude for this kindness. Bayou and his family to escape to Baltimore. When the rising of the negroes took place, in 1791, Toussaint refused to join them until he had aided M. Toussaint L'Ouverture, the black chieftain of Hayti, was a slave on the plantation "de Libertas," belonging to M.
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