Only the trunk of the tree of liberty

This article about a possible portrait of Toussaint Louverture is kinda interesting. This paragraph gives me pause:

In his email, he wrote: “This portrait by the son of Rene Louis de Girardin, the patron of the great French philosophe, Jean Jacques Rousseau, represents Toussaint as the ideal revolutionary. It is not the figure of the ferocious dictator he later became and which has dominated the political ethos in Haiti for the last two centuries. It is, therefore, this image and all that it philosophically stands for that has to prevail if Haiti is billed as the world’s first black republic.”

Um. I know that it's de rigueur to suggest that any Haitian leader is a dictator. To be clear, he was a military leader, and ruled as a military governor. He didn't have the chance to see Haiti as a free country, because he died in captivity before the revolution finished.

Also: Louverture never used an apostrophe in his name. I really wish that the AP style guide would cover this.