They don’t know about Haitian women. During the Haitian revolution there were multiple women who were military and strategic leaders. Like Victoria Montou a midwife, healer and brilliant military mind who became a Lieutenant in Toussaint Louverture’s revolutionary army. She built an indigenous army of former slaves and native Saint-Domingue people, training them in guerrilla warfare and combat tactics. And she is one of multiple women of considerable note in Haiti’s revolutionary history. Don’t

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