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Toussaint Louverture
1802 - Fort de Joux
Under guard in the cold stone of Fort de Joux, the man who led the only successful slave revolution in history writes what Napoleon's prison was designed to erase.
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Toussaint Louverture imprisoned at Fort de Joux
1802 · Fort de Joux, Jura Mountains
Fort de Joux makes revolutionary betrayal visible by turning a liberator into a captive of empire.
Toussaint and Napoleon make the clash between emancipation and imperial command impossible to soften.
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Toussaint Louverture
1802 - Fort de Joux
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Under guard in the cold stone of Fort de Joux, the man who led the only successful slave revolution in history writes what Napoleon's prison was designed to erase.