They blocked their way to the sea. Hoped this helped.
Toussaint Louverture led a successful slave revolt and emancipated the slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti). A formidable military leader, he turned the colony into a country governed by former black slaves as a nominal French protectorate and made himself ruler of the entire island of Hispaniola.
In general, the core of the humanist message was focused on "A. human achievement" The idea was to take the focus of of divine beings and place them on the rational order of humankind.
