Thank you Gresham College for this enlightening presentation by Dr. Hazareesingh. The Haitian Revolution has always fascinated me . I hope to share his interesting perspective with my students as we are about to begin looking at Toussaint in tomorrow's class.
CLR James' book "The Black Jacobins" is an excellent overview of the whole revolution and its background. I highly recommend it to anyone interested by this lecture.
I want to thank you for a research thoroughly and passionately done. I was born, raised and studied in Haiti, yet I learned so much from your presentation
We have 2 entities in Mr General Toussaint Louverture, first the Freedom Fighter, then, the Peace Maker. Despite everything, He succeeded in both. It's important to notice this fact. Vivat and Cheers for General Louverture !
Toussaint Louverture was the mastermind behind the success of Haiti's independence. Dessalines was the finisher. Haiti inspired many nations all over the world to earn their independence notably the South American nations.
@@fedorremy1994 when you see the colonizers give praises to toussaint l’ouverture more than Dessalines , you need to learn 1 thing or two how they do it with Martin Luther king but not Malcom x
Yet Toussaint was not seeking independance, he was seeking equality and freedom, but remain optimistic about haitians to be recognized as free eqaul french. Dessalines and others were not optimistic ad wanted independance. The Kidnapping (french betrayal) or Toussaint was the catalitic event that co firmed to Dessalines that they would never be free without total independance
And jean was a traitor. He even named the place haiti because he was into voodoo and prayed to the god hades. Smh dessalines messed up everything and turned saint Domingue into a demonic place. Toussaint was a great ruler who put his people first and led with wisdom.
He managed not to say a word about Jean Jacques Dessaline,the successor of Toussaint, how come to talk about Haitian revolution and Dessaline is not in it ? That’s really curious.
There would not be Dessalines without Toussaint Louverture. Essentially, people want to solve a problem without inquiring about its root, which is the cause of the current situation in Haiti. It hasn't occurred suddenly. Jean-Jacques Dessalines became a Hero because Toussaint Louverture inspired the movement, which, according to the records, he told the French authorities when taken to ‘ La Bastille.’’ My incarcération will only destroy a ‘Tree,’ but the ‘Roots’ will remain and produce a Better and Stronger one.’
I c your point. But,Toussaint was the Revolutionary, while Dessalines was the Finisher. Toussaint was the Strategist. Cependant, ils sont tous nos Unforgettable Heroes.
When you are in the middle of a browle, you may not be the one who started the browle; However, if you come out as the winner, you have to be recognized
Gresham lectures pre-covid had the best audio quality. Same room, same mic. Now, they move around rooms and the audio is terrible. This one, for example is metallic, nerds gain adjusted. Sad they cannot meet their prior high standards.
😂 if you count interrogation from his prison cell in Fort de Joux in the French Alps as education…then yes. Toussaint became very educated on the ways of French Treachery 😂
3:45 most were born in Africa; when the revolution happened in France 1789 liberty equality fraternity, the French DENIED the Africans; so August 1791 Bois-Caiman demand the same rights as French citizens 5:45 1794 French National Assembly in proclaims the abolition of slavery, 1 year after realizing they have no option 7:00 Toussaint Louverture was born sometime in the 1740s
Talking about Dessalines the Haitian revolution father ! I'm Haitian I know you like Toussaint louverture; perhaps, you have your reason for that!!! My only question ❓ for you! The Haitian people know that Dessalines it's the revolution father, but for you it's the contrary ?
We talk more about Toussaint Louverture than Jean Jacques Dessalines, because he is the Pioneer of the stuggle for freedom and Dessalines is coming after in the battle. We can't talk about haitian revolution without talking Toussaint, Dessalines , Capois,.....
Toussaint was a mason believing the French would cooperate with him due belief and thinking masons are brother hood but they turned around on him and took him to be prison in France 🇫🇷 and he died in prison from the cold 🥶 prison.
19:00 Why did it succeed? I don't think it succeeded in any sort of long-term way. One has to remember the difference between idealism, political viability. Thanks 😊🇺🇸 🇭🇹
2:13 Why do academics always champion numerous revolutionary movements which failed (but) overtly criticize the few revolutionary movements which succeeded? Always found it very much about Anti-Westernism than about unifying values which keep respective locales in stable order. People fawn over the French Revolution but it failed over, over again. Yet, they criticize the American Revolution (even though it succeeded). Was it perfect? No, but it succeeded. Thanks. G-d Bless America E Pluribus Unum 🇺🇸❤️🦅⭐🗽❤
I listen to you carefully, you made a big mistake in your book SIR. What you do with JeanJacques Dessalines aferter the deportation of Toussaint Louverture? Wuthout Dessalines your book doen't have no sense professor.
When Napoleon send troops to fight with him mainly poles. Poles said we are fighting for freedom and they chenged sides and fought french heh go to Haiti and there are still Polish ancestors heh
Thank for your attempt to tell our history, however you seem to have forgotten that Toussaint was captured, he couldn't possibly win the revolution being a POW at fort du jour, it was jean Jacques Dessalines the greatest general ever, and friends who won the for us not Toussaint. Gen. Toussaint wanted to be a diplomat trusting the enemy, he failed to realize trusting the enemy is never an option Sirach 12: 10-11. Again, thanks for your effort.
That’s right you’re correct,they can tried telling our story all they want but now most of us know better history confirmed it they’re the last people I’d let telling me about my history nice try though why don’t he tell how the great revolutionary Jean Jacques Desaline destroy a lot of them criminals what is he going to tell us next petion was the greatest too?
Toussaint died before Haiti became independent. Why don’t you mention General Jean-Jacques Dessalines’name, who fought the Battle of Vertieres and defeated the French army?
How you been talking about Toussaint for hours never mention Dessaline 🤔 once lol.. without Dessaline the legacy of Toussaint will never be great like that( Dessaline se papa liberte)
The English they are very quick at showing problems with French history they should also look at themselves and recognize that they were just as bad if not worse
What's this 'the English' and 'the French'. Those people have been dead for 200 years. Do you go to Norway and say to people, 'well you point the finger at me, but look at the crimes the Vikings committed'.
England, the first country to outlaw slavery in the history of the world and also spent a fair but of money implementing it on the seven seas. The rest of the world followed suite afterwards. If it wasn't for the industrial revolution and end of slavery, both thanks to Britain, we would probably still have slavery today.
@@laurenceguillez Lectures people pedantically, then acts all superior and shuts it down. Classic. Notice how the English were not a factor in this story? Would you like every single topic ever addressed in future - however unrelated - to include a section about how the English are just as bad if not worse? If you think this lecture is somehow showing that the British don't examine the dark side of their own colonial past, you are every bit as dumb as your OP makes you sound. BTW - go look at any former French colonial possession and any former English colonial possession and see how most of them are doing today. Were the British just as bad if not worse? Sure. They were also LIGHT YEARS BETTER.
Dessalines was the father Haytian people all the glory should go to him not Toussaint Louverture that's why L'Occident bury his name for over 40 years stop feeding people with the fake story.
TOUSSAINT EST LE PREMIER GÉNÉRAL NOIR FRANÇAIS AUSSI DEVENU PREMIER GOUVERNEUR FRANÇAIS ; NOMMÉ PAR NAPOLÉON; C'ÉTAIT AUSSI UN RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE QUI À VOULUT QUE LES NOIRS TRAVAILLENT LIBREMENT POUR LA MÉTROPOLE OU LA FRANCE.
The Haitian revolution also succeeded in part because the white settlers were internally fractured themselves in a way that they weren't in other colonies.
This story is very misleading because Jean Jacque Dessaline is who freed Haiti from slavery, & the one Haiti talk the most about. Toussaint was a traitor. Why don't you talk about Jean Jacque Dessaline? Please, keep doing your research, you seemed to be afraid of telling the true story.
A lot of false and misleading statements. The French Revolution abolished slavery in Saint Domingue, but the plantations owners, white colonists and other opposed it, they have to send a commissioner to implement the abolition.
napoleon reestablished slavery and sent forces to reinstate slavery in the Caribbean. He succeeded in Guadeloupe and Martinique but failed miserably in Saint Domingue.
@@maestro301 Napoleón Bonaparte was the head of the counterrevolution, which means he was in alignment with the “grand blanc” and other segments in Saint Domingue that don’t want slavery to end. Still erroneous to state that the French Revolution didn’t end slavery, that’s more propaganda than history.
@@carlosencarnacion7902 I agree that the French revolution ended slavery. However, France remains the only country to have ended slavery after a revolution and reinstating it... leading to the loss of Saint Domingue (Haiti) its most profitable colony due to another revolt there to end slavery. Napoleon being a counter-revolutionist doesn't erase the fact that he was the leader of France... and is still recognized as one of its greatest. So yeah, France reinstated slavery after abolishing it.
@@maestro301 Il serait plus véridique de dire que les commissaires ont pris acte de la liberté des insurgés de Saint Domingue à la suite du soulèvement général du 22 aout 1791.
🤩🤔🤔🤔🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾. If the French abolish slavery their would not have been jean Jacques desalin who is faaaaarrrrrr greater than Toussaint’s louverture. And I noticed no white historians want to talk about desalin.
Merci beaucoup Toussaint Louverture première commandant révolution Toussaint Louverture à tués trois milles cinq 100 soldats colombes françaises malheureusement les Haïtiens oublions Toussaint Louverture Jean Jacques Dessaline il était soldats Toussaint Louverture ....
Dominican republic is not a country because they don't have one Haiti give them a peace of our land were they are belong to Haiti we dit not went to faith we let them stay there Haiti including Santo Domingo it is our territory to
The red and blue in the south American flags is a symbolic thank you to Hayti from Simon Bolivar for liberating them. Greece and other nations that exist because of Hayti would not agree with your statement.
black history month, well that's 2 minutes i'll never get back, barrel scrapping, maybe a lesson on their only contribution to their race, mud biscuits
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I bet this man has been through a lot ever since this book has been published. He uncovered so much buried history. I'm forever thankful.
lol Louverture destroyed Haiti reduced it to eating mud, left to their own blacks created the world's only a 4th !!! world country
Thank you Gresham College for this enlightening presentation by Dr. Hazareesingh. The Haitian Revolution has always fascinated me . I hope to share his interesting perspective with my students as we are about to begin looking at Toussaint in tomorrow's class.
CLR James' book "The Black Jacobins" is an excellent overview of the whole revolution and its background. I highly recommend it to anyone interested by this lecture.
This was a wonderful interesting lecture. Thank you very much for upload.
I want to thank you for a research thoroughly and passionately done. I was born, raised and studied in Haiti, yet I learned so much from your presentation
u in the US now?
Thank you I can share it with my children
Superb, thought provoking and insightful.
Thank you for this presentation. Learned a lot about the man.
This video would've had 25 million likes if it was about the amercan revolution.
25 million? no.
We have 2 entities in Mr General Toussaint Louverture, first the Freedom Fighter, then, the Peace Maker. Despite everything, He succeeded in both. It's important to notice this fact. Vivat and Cheers for General Louverture !
The world will soon know the true power of Haiti and its people.....
we've been waiting for 200 years.
Toussaint Louverture was the mastermind behind the success of Haiti's independence. Dessalines was the finisher. Haiti inspired many nations all over the world to earn their independence notably the South American nations.
What are you talking about bro its not that
@@fedorremy1994 when you see the colonizers give praises to toussaint l’ouverture more than Dessalines , you need to learn 1 thing or two how they do it with Martin Luther king but not Malcom x
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Yet Toussaint was not seeking independance, he was seeking equality and freedom, but remain optimistic about haitians to be recognized as free eqaul french. Dessalines and others were not optimistic ad wanted independance. The Kidnapping (french betrayal) or Toussaint was the catalitic event that co firmed to Dessalines that they would never be free without total independance
Justice pour président jovenel moïse justice pour Haïti justice pour peuple Haïtien justice la jeunesse haïtienne
So very interesting and all completely new to me. Thank you.
That's why they are killing us
Why not talking about Jean Jacques Dessaline?
He came after him
Because he’s talking about Toussaint
And jean was a traitor. He even named the place haiti because he was into voodoo and prayed to the god hades. Smh dessalines messed up everything and turned saint Domingue into a demonic place. Toussaint was a great ruler who put his people first and led with wisdom.
🇭🇹 VIVE LA HAÏTI ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️... 🇭🇹
Haiti needs a movie (big screen) Jamie Foxx
Not In this world
Vive Jean Jacques Dessalines le père de l'indépendance de l'humanité Vive Haïti 🇭🇹🌾🌾🇭🇹
Fantastic story.
He managed not to say a word about Jean Jacques Dessaline,the successor of Toussaint, how come to talk about Haitian revolution and Dessaline is not in it ? That’s really curious.
Because his book is about Toussaint. Maybe he mentions him in his book.
really you are very ignorant. He is talking about Toussaint that is why.
There would not be Dessalines without Toussaint Louverture. Essentially, people want to solve a problem without inquiring about its root, which is the cause of the current situation in Haiti. It hasn't occurred suddenly. Jean-Jacques Dessalines became a Hero because Toussaint Louverture inspired the movement, which, according to the records, he told the French authorities when taken to ‘ La Bastille.’’ My incarcération will only destroy a ‘Tree,’ but the ‘Roots’ will remain and produce a Better and Stronger one.’
We are the choosing generation
Amen to that Sis!! 💖💖💖💖
Interested. Pretty impressive
Never talk about Jean Jacque Dessaline, only Toussaint. Jean Jacque Dessaline is the father of independence
I c your point.
But,Toussaint was the Revolutionary, while Dessalines was the Finisher.
Toussaint was the Strategist.
Cependant, ils sont tous nos Unforgettable Heroes.
@@marc111863 exactly, Toussaint laid the foundation for a free Haiti. He mentored all of his generals on how to deal effectively with the Europeans.
When you are in the middle of a browle, you may not be the one who started the browle; However, if you come out as the winner, you have to be recognized
Sorry for misspelling the word browle for brawl. My mind was based on something else
Toussaint was the mastermind
I realy want one of this of histury
thank you
Very interesting and essential thank you
General Jean Jacque Dessaline is the Father of Independence Haiti
Toussaint Louverture was our hero
Gresham lectures pre-covid had the best audio quality. Same room, same mic. Now, they move around rooms and the audio is terrible. This one, for example is metallic, nerds gain adjusted. Sad they cannot meet their prior high standards.
I heard that Toussaint studied in France for a while. He has a beautiful handwriting.
😂 if you count interrogation from his prison cell in Fort de Joux in the French Alps as education…then yes.
Toussaint became very educated on the ways of French Treachery 😂
Vive Emperor Jacques I, vive Jean Jacques Dessalines
Nice to hear
3:45 most were born in Africa; when the revolution happened in France 1789 liberty equality fraternity, the French DENIED the Africans; so August 1791 Bois-Caiman demand the same rights as French citizens
5:45 1794 French National Assembly in proclaims the abolition of slavery, 1 year after realizing they have no option
7:00 Toussaint Louverture was born sometime in the 1740s
Talking about Dessalines the Haitian revolution father ! I'm Haitian I know you like Toussaint louverture; perhaps, you have your reason for that!!!
My only question ❓ for you! The Haitian people know that Dessalines it's the revolution father, but for you it's the contrary ?
And they have achieved a wonderful level of progress and enlightenment with their revolution. Congratulations.
They could have if the us did not have both knees on their necks
Such a hater 🙄🙄🙄
How can l buy a book of this book of your plaese
We talk more about Toussaint Louverture than Jean Jacques Dessalines, because he is the Pioneer of the stuggle for freedom and Dessalines is coming after in the battle. We can't talk about haitian revolution without talking Toussaint, Dessalines , Capois,.....
9:37 or so: I think Hidalgo was also in his fifties by the time the revolution happened, though I'm not sure...
Marvellously interesting talk, marred slightly by a lot of "Er...er...um."
Toussaint was a mason believing the French would cooperate with him due belief and thinking masons are brother hood but they turned around on him and took him to be prison in France 🇫🇷 and he died in prison from the cold 🥶 prison.
The British navy “assisted” General Dessalines during the final phase of the war.
You didn't say anything about Jean Jaques desaline
19:00 Why did it succeed? I don't think it succeeded in any sort of long-term way. One has to remember the difference between idealism, political viability. Thanks 😊🇺🇸 🇭🇹
2:13 Why do academics always champion numerous revolutionary movements which failed (but) overtly criticize the few revolutionary movements which succeeded? Always found it very much about Anti-Westernism than about unifying values which keep respective locales in stable order.
People fawn over the French Revolution but it failed over, over again. Yet, they criticize the American Revolution (even though it succeeded). Was it perfect? No, but it succeeded. Thanks.
G-d Bless America E Pluribus Unum 🇺🇸❤️🦅⭐🗽❤
I would be interested to learn about your main criteria for 'success' and 'failure'.
Why are they refused to talk about Dessalines. The One who slapped all of them and spit on their face.
His book is about Toussaint.
Where is Dessaline stand this history?
One day the true going out
There is no way Dominican should act and treated Haitian people like this because no matter what they are neighbor
Justice for president jovenel moise go in Amazon ask for the Constitution Haitian 1804
I listen to you carefully, you made a big mistake in your book SIR. What you do with JeanJacques Dessalines aferter the deportation of Toussaint Louverture? Wuthout Dessalines your book doen't have no sense professor.
Toussaint Louverture has nothing to do with Saint Domingue at that time the island used to be name Hispaniola
When Napoleon send troops to fight with him mainly poles. Poles said we are fighting for freedom and they chenged sides and fought french heh go to Haiti and there are still Polish ancestors heh
Thank for your attempt to tell our history, however you seem to have forgotten that Toussaint was captured, he couldn't possibly win the revolution being a POW at fort du jour, it was jean Jacques Dessalines the greatest general ever, and friends who won the for us not Toussaint. Gen. Toussaint wanted to be a diplomat trusting the enemy, he failed to realize trusting the enemy is never an option Sirach 12: 10-11. Again, thanks for your effort.
That’s right you’re correct,they can tried telling our story all they want but now most of us know better history confirmed it they’re the last people I’d let telling me about my history nice try though why don’t he tell how the great revolutionary Jean Jacques Desaline destroy a lot of them criminals what is he going to tell us next petion was the greatest too?
Papa ,please guardian of gate
Toussaint died before Haiti became independent. Why don’t you mention General Jean-Jacques Dessalines’name, who fought the Battle of Vertieres and defeated the French army?
Toussaint was never the leader of the Haitian revolution. Dessalines was !!! In fact toussaint was a traitor
Bnjou frè enel e si u reve wap lave chevew nn dómi apresa u mare yo a tral wouj
Esi u reve wap lave bò lanmè nn u chita nn labou sal e se rad mennaj u wap lave wap chante svp ki sa sa vle di
WOW! I need this book in my library. Thank you for getting & sharing the HAITIAN HISTORY so perfectly 👍🙏❗
It was actually George Biassou
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How you been talking about Toussaint for hours never mention Dessaline 🤔 once lol.. without Dessaline the legacy of Toussaint will never be great like that( Dessaline se papa liberte)
The English they are very quick at showing problems with French history they should also look at themselves and recognize that they were just as bad if not worse
What's this 'the English' and 'the French'. Those people have been dead for 200 years. Do you go to Norway and say to people, 'well you point the finger at me, but look at the crimes the Vikings committed'.
England, the first country to outlaw slavery in the history of the world and also spent a fair but of money implementing it on the seven seas. The rest of the world followed suite afterwards. If it wasn't for the industrial revolution and end of slavery, both thanks to Britain, we would probably still have slavery today.
Of course the English are so superior but they weren’t really as I have said above thank you for your comment let’s stop there
@@laurenceguillez who hurt you?
@@laurenceguillez Lectures people pedantically, then acts all superior and shuts it down. Classic. Notice how the English were not a factor in this story? Would you like every single topic ever addressed in future - however unrelated - to include a section about how the English are just as bad if not worse? If you think this lecture is somehow showing that the British don't examine the dark side of their own colonial past, you are every bit as dumb as your OP makes you sound.
BTW - go look at any former French colonial possession and any former English colonial possession and see how most of them are doing today. Were the British just as bad if not worse? Sure. They were also LIGHT YEARS BETTER.
Whose tousain louverture,fake news,Jean Jaques dessaline and Marc andal
Dessalines was the father Haytian people all the glory should go to him not Toussaint Louverture that's why L'Occident bury his name for over 40 years stop feeding people with the fake story.
The master mind haytien was emperor jean Jacques Dessalines
TOUSSAINT EST LE PREMIER GÉNÉRAL NOIR FRANÇAIS AUSSI DEVENU PREMIER GOUVERNEUR FRANÇAIS ; NOMMÉ PAR NAPOLÉON; C'ÉTAIT AUSSI UN RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE QUI À VOULUT QUE LES NOIRS TRAVAILLENT LIBREMENT POUR LA MÉTROPOLE OU LA FRANCE.
The Haitian revolution also succeeded in part because the white settlers were internally fractured themselves in a way that they weren't in other colonies.
and perhaps the enslaved could not be turned against an indigenous population because by that time they'd all be killed?
I believe this guy don't tell the truth because he not talking about Jean Jacques
💯💫💯💫👍
Please stop lying about Haitian revolution if you want to be a speaker get more knowledge
This story is very misleading because Jean Jacque Dessaline is who freed Haiti from slavery, & the one Haiti talk the most about. Toussaint was a traitor. Why don't you talk about Jean Jacque Dessaline? Please, keep doing your research, you seemed to be afraid of telling the true story.
A lot of false and misleading statements.
The French Revolution abolished slavery in Saint Domingue, but the plantations owners, white colonists and other opposed it, they have to send a commissioner to implement the abolition.
napoleon reestablished slavery and sent forces to reinstate slavery in the Caribbean. He succeeded in Guadeloupe and Martinique but failed miserably in Saint Domingue.
@@maestro301
Napoleón Bonaparte was the head of the counterrevolution, which means he was in alignment with the “grand blanc” and other segments in Saint Domingue that don’t want slavery to end.
Still erroneous to state that the French Revolution didn’t end slavery, that’s more propaganda than history.
@@carlosencarnacion7902 I agree that the French revolution ended slavery. However, France remains the only country to have ended slavery after a revolution and reinstating it... leading to the loss of Saint Domingue (Haiti) its most profitable colony due to another revolt there to end slavery. Napoleon being a counter-revolutionist doesn't erase the fact that he was the leader of France... and is still recognized as one of its greatest. So yeah, France reinstated slavery after abolishing it.
@@maestro301 Il serait plus véridique de dire que les commissaires ont pris acte de la liberté des insurgés de Saint Domingue à la suite du soulèvement général du 22 aout 1791.
🤩🤔🤔🤔🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾. If the French abolish slavery their would not have been jean Jacques desalin who is faaaaarrrrrr greater than Toussaint’s louverture. And I noticed no white historians want to talk about desalin.
Merci beaucoup Toussaint Louverture première commandant révolution Toussaint Louverture à tués trois milles cinq 100 soldats colombes françaises malheureusement les Haïtiens oublions Toussaint Louverture Jean Jacques Dessaline il était soldats Toussaint Louverture ....
Your guys liar about the haitian story
After Toussaint Louverture Jean Jacques Dessalines is finish the revolision and is firs Président of Haïti .
He got captured because he’s a masons and believe the French masons are his brothers. And they would understand him
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Dominican republic is not a country because they don't have one Haiti give them a peace of our land were they are belong to Haiti we dit not went to faith we let them stay there Haiti including Santo Domingo it is our territory to
they want to stifle haitian history so don't mention dessaline
These demons love telling other people story
And you head he says hayti= montage
Haitians have their 1804 but little else these days.
The red and blue in the south American flags is a symbolic thank you to Hayti from Simon Bolivar for liberating them. Greece and other nations that exist because of Hayti would not agree with your statement.
Another hater 🙄🤦♀️🤦♀️
They stole’s everything for us
This guy should not be giving lectures on the revolution. The second time I watched him. His first lecture was so bigoted.
Is there an example at 5.20 "..a lot of white settlers are killed.."?
We are 100% Jewish
We are Isrealites
You don't know history exactly .why you're talking like this ?
black history month, well that's 2 minutes i'll never get back, barrel scrapping, maybe a lesson on their only contribution to their race, mud biscuits
The black spartacan
Talk about white history
Interesting
How can l buy a book of this book of your plaese