Francois-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, 1743 - 1803, aka Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Breda. A leader of the Haitian Revolution in 1791, a successful anti-slavery and anti-colonial insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue. Illustration by Gordon Ross, American artist and illustrator (1873-1946), from Living Biographies of Famous Rulers.