Grace and Tolerance in History is Dr. Roy’s eighth lecture for the Museum of the Future’s Lessons from the Past (2025). This collaboration between the Museum of the Future and Dr. Roy aims to explore 10 topics ranging from the life of the father of modern medicine to examples of great leadership to the birth of the Most Serene Republic of Venice.
Discover what true leadership under impossible circumstances looks like — from mercy amid revolution to the making of the world’s first Black republic.
🌍 Learn more: https://museumofthefuture.ae
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Dr. Roy Casagranda examines the extraordinary life and leadership of Toussaint Louverture during the Haitian Revolution — a story of vision, mercy, and betrayal. From the arrival of Columbus and the genocide of the Taino to the rise of Louverture and the fall of Napoleon’s colonial ambitions, this lecture reveals how Haiti became the first free Black republic in the modern world. Exploring themes of power, forgiveness, race, and empire, Dr. Casagranda exposes the moral and political lessons that still define the struggle for justice and freedom today.
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00:00:00 Great Leadership Under Terrible Circumstances
00:03:13 Columbus Arrives and the Destruction of the Taino
00:07:21 Slavery Transforms the Island Economy
00:09:49 The Racial and Social Hierarchy of Saint-Domingue
00:18:29 The French Revolution Sparks Global Change
00:23:15 Early Mixed-Race Rebellions and Rising Tensions
00:24:47 The Rise of Toussaint Louverture
00:27:55 Acts of Mercy in a Time of Vengeance
00:33:01 Switching Sides: Toussaint Joins the French
00:36:30 The British Invasion and Toussaint’s Strategy
00:40:55 Building a New Post-Slavery Economy
00:43:46 Radical Politics and the French Reaction
00:47:15 Napoleon’s Ambition and Return to Empire
00:51:00 Civil War and Toussaint’s Consolidation of Power
00:53:35 The 1801 Constitution and Toussaint’s Rule
00:57:00 Napoleon’s Invasion and the Great Betrayal
01:05:26 The Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot
01:16:08 Haiti’s Independence and Toussaint’s Legacy
#ToussaintLouverture #HaitianRevolution #WorldHistory #Leadership
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I always thought that he was great lecture until he mentioned how great the UAE is
You need to talk about the UAE and Sudan
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I really enjoy these lectures, but to say that ancient and medieval slavery where nothing compared to modern time slavery is at best ignorant. At least for ancient Greece and Rome, I can say quite the opposite.
Ah the lie that "everyone is racist" still persists. I can't take you seriously… and I'm not even going to get into what you said about the Arabs briefly…
He forgets to mention that Colombus was a Jew. And 80% of slave owners was Jews.
This is damn near pathetic. How is he going to talk for over an hour on the subject and not mention the Haiti national Independence debt that the French forced on them 20 years after Independence.
That is why the country is so poor.
When the truth of the Haitian revolution is ever able to be translated on the big screen, the world will never have seen anything more horrid and at the same time inspiring and victorious for humanity. It is really a blueprint about what humanity should be.
Greetings from Boriquén ("Puerto Rico"). "Taino" isn't a real ethno/cultural identity and never was. That name is a colonial exonym initially scantly used by Columbus after hearing a similar word and much later rediscovered & adopted by white western academia (anthropologists, archaeologists etc) in the early 20th century. There were multiple distinct people groups inhabiting our islands but none called itself "Taíno". Our region was largely plurilingual and very culturally diverse. There are still millions of us descendants of the original peoples with varying degrees of cultural connection and preservation. Very few people identify as indigenous (although many of our elders do claim "indio" ancestry) due to mestizaje ideology over centuries, and the official census also stopped reporting on indigenous populations in the late 1700s. They were largely reclassified under the "pardo" category in the early 1800s onward. There are neo/pseudo-indigenous revivalist movements which were born in the Puerto Rican diaspora in NYC in the early 70s which is probably what he's referring to. These groups play pretend and like to play dress up, do red face and LARP as if they were still the same pre colonial peoples before contact, genocide and colonization. Much of the culture, regalia and language they claim is indigenous Caribbean is actually stolen and appropriated from other distinct distantly related or completely unrelated people groups. They are known as frauds or pretendians in indigenous circles. This phenomenon has been happening everywhere for the last several decades, like the Neo-Mexica wannabe "Aztec" movements in modern-day México, as well as many groups and individuals who falsely claim indigeneity in Canada and the US. As a descendant who studies this constantly I just wanted to clear that up for the professor and anyone else who was curious👍🏽 Also free Boriquén, free Aytí, free the Caribbean, free Palestine, free Sudan and fuck the imperial U.S., apartheid Israel and genocidal UAE.
What about Puerto rico