Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution (2009)

• 70%
• 2009
• Documentary
• History
• Noland Walker
• Edwidge Danticat
• Jacques Derosena
• Krystel Roche

The true story of the most successful slave uprising in world history comes to the screen as documentary filmmaker Nolan Walker explores the Haitian Revolution, the movement some historians site as the flashpoint for universal human rights. Though largely forgotten at the dawn of the 21st Century, the Haitian Revolution shook the globe just two centuries prior, traumatizing Southern farmers by inspiring slaves and abolitionists to leap into action. Leading the charge of this epochal uprising was Toussaint Louverture, a former slave who became a financially secure landowner after being freed by his master.