Black SpartacusThe definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero. The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's first independent black state. After the abolition of slavery in 1793, Toussaint Louverture, himself a former slave, became the leader of the colony's black population, the