The Making of a Haitian Revolutionary: From Toussaint Breda to Toussaint LOuverture
b'Guest:\\xa0Sudhir Hazareesingh\\xa0is a British-Mauritian historian. He is a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy.\\xa0 He has written extensively about French intellectual and cultural history, among his books are\\xa0The Legend of Napoleon,\\xa0In the Shadow of the General\\xa0and\\xa0How the French Think. He won the Prix du M\\xe9morial d\\u2019Ajaccio and the Prix de la Fondation Napol\\xe9on for the first of these, a Prix d\\u2019Histoire du S\\xe9nat for the second, and the Grand Prix du Livre d\\u2019Id\\xe9es for the third. His latest book is\\xa0Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture.\\nPhoto Credit: Anonymous on Wikimedia\\nThe post The Making of a Haitian Revolutionary: From Toussaint Breda to Toussaint L\\u2019Ouverture appeared first on KPFA.'