Open the Door to Liberty

- Authors
- Rockwell, Anne
- Publisher
- HMH Books for Young Readers
- Tags
- biography , history
- ISBN
- 9780618605705
- Date
- 2009-01-12T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 4.05 MB
- Lang
- en
The story of revolution leaderToussaint L'Ouverture of St. Domingue (now Haiti).
The island now known as Haiti was once a French colony called St. Domingue, where white plantation owners forced hundreds of thousands of African slaves to farm sugar cane. Toussaint L'Ouverture was one of those slaves . . . but not for long. The day would come when L'Ouverture would lead his island's slaves into a revolution for freedom, and his efforts would influence the course of world history.