...TR/xhtml1/strict"> Toussaint L'Ouverture, the black chieftain of Hayti, was a slave on the plantation de Libertas, belonging to M. Bayou. When the rising of the negroes took place, in 1791, Toussaint refused to join them until he had aided M. Bayou and his family to escape to Baltimore. The white man had discovered in Toussaint many noble qualities, and had instructed him in some of the first b...