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.
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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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Toussaint Louverture never owned Dessaline and Christophe. Jean-Jacques Duclos was his slave name until Henri Dessaline purchased Jean-Jacques and changed his name to Dessaline. Henri Dessaline was a man of color.
Nhi samajh ati ke apni jan bachani chahiye bahr jake ya is dharti jis ne pala he uska ahsan chukane ki koshish krni chahiye
UAE…has a liberal govt? WTF?
3 musketeers
Diminishing the Arab’s sin to heighten your distaste for the West doesn’t give us the ownership to tell it. Let Black Africa finally write OUR history from our perspective dear professor.
This after a long observation.
Dr. Roy, I understand that you live in the UAE and that’s okay, whoever as a political scientist that seems to be on the left and seems to condemn colonialism/apartheid, isn’t it kind of weird to be praising the leadership of the UAE when they are actively funding a genocide in Sudan? I know you may not be able to outright condemn them but this open praise for a government that is willing to fund a muderous genocidal group like the RSF and then on top of that profit from the Gold that is stolen from the Sudanese people and used to profit the UAE while millions of Sudanese citizens are displaced and hundreds of thousands of Sudanese people are killed to facilitate this illicit trade, I’m not sure if praising the “leadership” is a positive thing, idk but this is a bit off putting.
Great lecturer, i just wonder how long it will take before UAE sucks all of his light out with position and benefits. Anyway, if you run out of ideas i hope you can do a talk on the aksumite/abyssinian empire, especially including how they (christians) let Muhammad (pbuh) in and protected him after he got driven out of mekkah
Great lecture as always but he must realize what the UAE government has been responsible for. That concerns me a little.
UAE?! Is he serious?
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