Toussaint Louverture

This image is taken from volume two of 'A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings' (1877). This is a third edition of the volumes, published by Adam and Charles Black. The images are accompanied by descriptive text written from notes by Kay himself and later compiled by the publisher, Hugh Paton.
The accompanying text in the volume begins as follows:

"General of the black troops of St Domingo, and Governor of that island. He was an extraordinary man. Born a slave his means of instruction were extremely limited, yet he acquired a tolerable knowledge of the rudiments of education, and conducted himself with the utmost propriety while a bondsman. On the revolt of the blacks he joined his countrymen, and gradually attained the supreme command. During the period of his government, he displayed a capacity for legislation equal to his courage and generalship in the field. When, after a severe struggle for the independence of Hayiti, he at length submitted to the overwhelming forces of the French, and had retired to his estate, under the guarantee of protection, he was privately seized, carried on board a French man-of-war, and hurried away to France, where he was thrown into prison, and there expired, after a lingering illness, in the second year of the Consulate (1803). His fate, however, operated with talismanic effect upon his countrymen; they flew to arms; and, headed by the brave but cruel Dessaline, completed that independence of which, under the patriotic Louverture, they had shown themselves worthy."

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