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Toussaint L'Ouverture at Bedourete
(detail)
2004, oil on linen, 136 x 183cm |
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Toussaint L'Ouverture, leader of Haiti's
national resistance movement, at the 1802 Battle of Bedourete - a skirmish
with Napoleon's French invasion army. The encounter is recalled in C.L.R.
James's history of Haiti, 'The Black Jacobins'.
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