On this Day in April 7th, 1803, the imprisoned François-Dominique Toussaint #Louverture, Haitian national hero of African descent as well as one of the first leaders of the Latin American independence movement and the liberation of black slaves, died from the conditions of his imprisonment after eight months in his cell at the Château de Joux. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toussaint_Louverture #Haiti