Source: Book jacket of Madison Smartt Bell's book, Toussaint Louverture. New York: Pantheon Books, 2007.
Image: This naïf-style illustration is by Esther Pearl Watson, who has reproduced a word description of Toussaint Louverture by Bell on pp. 292-293. Here is Bell's description of a second portrait of the subject, by M. de Montfayon: "[It] was singled out by Toussaint's son Isaac as the only imge in which he found his father recognizable... [In this] second portrait ... Toussaint wears a ... coat ... with gold braid, his general's epaulettes, his right hand clasping a spyglass against a ceremonial sash. In this image he is bareheaded, his remaining hair gathered in a queue at the back, and we see that his forehead is very high, and his cranium remarkably large."