Toussaint Louverture: A Negro History Drama in Five Acts   Save
Charles Young Collection - NAM MSS 2
Description: Charles Young's unpublished play based on Toussaint Louverture, the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s, which led to the freeing of Haitian slaves and the independent nation of Haiti. Young was the third African American to graduate from West Point when he finished his military education in 1889. Along with his military career, he also served as a professor at Wilberforce University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2_B6_001
Subjects: Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803; African American Educators; African American soldiers; African American men; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.; Literary Ohio
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)