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    Open the Door to Liberty
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    Open the Door to Liberty

    By Anne Rockwell and R. Gregory Christie

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 12, 2009
    ISBN9780547562070
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    Open the Door to Liberty
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    Anne Rockwell

    Anne Rockwell is the author of Hey, Charleston!:The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band, which was a Junior Library Guild Selection. She lives in Stamford, Connecticut.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent account of the life of Toussaint l'Ouverture putting in parallel the life of Napoleon. Both end in captivity. The drama of the 1793 abolition of slavery by the French Jacobins and the attempts to reinstate this awful institution in St.Domingue giving birth to the free nation of Haiti. Great illustrations by Gregory Christie.