Saint-Jean Louverture was one of the biological sons of toussaint-louverture and suzanne-louverture, and the least documented member of the Louverture family's inner circle.
He appears in toussaint-brest-1802 as one of the "two older children" directed by the Minister of Marine to Bayonne following the family's deportation from Saint-Domingue after Toussaint's arrest in June 1802. The other older child was isaac-louverture.
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French Minister of MarineOrder for Toussaint's Imprisonment at Brest (July 24, 1802)1802
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- 1802
Leclerc Expedition
expedition — military-political context for the arrest and deportation