Open the Door to Liberty

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
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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.