colony and eventually his talents less such that he was brought to the attention of the plantation araki and he became effectively the assistant of the manager of the plant as and he lived for the 1st 50 years of his life until 'd the outbreak of the revolution enslaved to 50 year olds watching this program can take heart that they can become revolutionaries of 50 it's never too late exactly and then when the revolution broke out in 1791 immediately became one of its leaders and rapidly established himself as the. leader of the homa and slave peoples and then he has this meteoric rise becomes a general in the french republic and on the fight the british the spaniards and later on even the french kicks them out of how demanded the french revolution the 2nd but you know i'm going to ask you because the history textbooks i have at school said pitt the younger was a great reformer here in britain with wilberforce an anti-slavery you say to sail of a tour or basically. commanded nami the killed 15000 british troops on haiti what were the british doing that well it's a very good question and i