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Haiti to Harlem: Toussaint L'Ouverture & Jacob LawrenceMain MenuJacob Lawrence: The StorytellerPaintings to PrintsThe Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture in PrintContextualizing The PrintsCurating the ExhibitionImprints and ImpactHighlights the impact of the Jacob Lawrence prints in relation to both Lawrence's life and the history of global POC liberation.About the CuratorsMeet the Fall 2024 Curatorial Class!Select Bibliography
During the truce Toussaint is deceived and arrested by LeClerc. LeClerc felt that with Toussaint out of the way, the Blacks would surrender.
1media/Toussaint_36_thumb.jpg2024-12-12T14:45:58-08:00Sibel Zandi-Sayek73cde7a43bd5eb518df1a2b6db82852f9eafbb80461172Painting of General Toussaint L'Ouverture being deceived and arrested by Jacob LawrenceArmed black man in red military garb being attacked by four white men in blue military garbplain2024-12-13T14:03:31-08:00Laura Fogartyd204fb8325ad266ec96c176f9e37561460962067
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1media/Deception.jpg2024-11-11T10:19:16-08:00Deception15plain2024-12-19T05:47:37-08:00 Left: During the truce Toussaint is deceived and arrested by LeClerc. LeClerc felt that with Toussaint out of the way, the Blacks would surrender (1937) / Right: Deception (1997)
Tied down to a chair, Toussaint L’Ouverture is threatened by four French soldiers. Deception is one of the few prints of the revised series to directly show interactions between the Haitian revolutionaries and their White colonizers. Though the Frenchmen are interrogating L'Ouverture, their blades point toward one another, making us ask who is deceiving whom? The situation may be grim, but it is only a momentary defeat for L'Ouverture.
