In the 1790s Toussaint L'Ouverture led a slave revolt that led to this Caribbean nation's independence
In 1791, Africans 
enslaved in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue exploded in a revolt 
... An ex-slave named Toussaint Louverture had welded bands of... [DOC] [TLE] Two Revolutions in the Atlantic World: Connections between the ... [PAR] The French Revolution ultimately led to a far-reaching social transformation 
within the ... of nations, no foreign nation even acknowledged Haitian 
independence ...