L’Ouverture de Toussaint ©Lea Hobson @Altitude Jazz Festival 2023

Toussaint Louverture between jazz, blues and hip-hop

Carl-Henry Cadet
3 min readJun 16, 2023

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“By overthrowing me, you have only defeated the trunk of the tree of freedom; it will grow back because its roots are deep, numerous and vivacious.” — Toussaint Louverture, after his imprisonment in 1802 by the French expeditionary force of…

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Carl-Henry Cadet

Freelance Writer (10 yrs+) | MSc. in Economics and Management | Journalist | Based in Berlin | carlhenrycadet@gmail.com