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Tuesday.

So we are talking about Toussaint Levitur and he is the most successful man as far as slave

uprisings are concerned. He arises from really inauspicious beginnings and like so many of the people we cover in this series.

They are set parameters by slavery which they should, by all rights, never be able to break out of but they do.

So Toussaintavittur is a humble sickly child who is on the island of Sandamank which is now known as Haiti and he rises up from being

just a shepherd boy to being somebody who comes under the tutelage of we like to

think Morgan Freeman who sees some

sort of the scene as a wise old man of the hills who sees something in him and

teaches him his letters he then becomes embroiled in the first and abortive slave uprising, which is a bloody awful affair.

And then, with the second run at this, rises and rises through the ranks and organises a slave army uniting different groups and we talked about the different groups of their different interests the mulattos the blacks and on the other side you've got the small whites and the big

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