Toussaint L'Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in 1971. He helped form a revolutionary movement out of the insurgency. Haiti (Saint-Domingue) was the most successful slave colony of that time and the first to reject race as a social structure. L'Ouverture actions led Haiti to independence from France. He began fighting in 1971 as a leader of a slave rebellion in Saint Domingue. He made an alliance with France when they abolished slavery and he started gaining control of the island. Also, L'Ouverture restated the plantation system through paid labor and negotiated treaties with the UK and US.
Simón Bolívar led the independence of the northern part of South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru)
Miguel Hidalgo D. is a Mexican historical figure.
P.J. Laborie was the author of The Coffee Planter of Saint Domingo in 1789 which was a manual for building a coffee plantation.
