Britannia’s Black Spartacus
Toussaint Louverture, the father of Haitian independence, became an unlikely star of the Victorian London stage.
Toussaint Louverture, the father of Haitian independence, became an unlikely star of the Victorian London stage.
A thief who had been dead for more than a century caused a moral panic in the theatres of Victorian London.
A double murder in an English wood became a Victorian cause célèbre, provoking a national debate about the tyranny of land ownership and the loss of ancient liberties.