Toussaint L'Ouverture

TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE is a play dramatizing the heroic and tragic story of Toussaint L'Ouverture the liberator of Haiti who led the African slaves in Haiti's liberation struggle and heroically defeated Napoleon Bonaparte and France and won the right to liberty and freedom. The play later dramatizes how, in the end, by treachery and guile, Haiti's Liberation Hero was betrayed by his trusted followers to Napoleon and was sent condemned to a lonely death in Fort de Joux in the cold Jura Mountains of eastern France.