Bibliograph

Open the door to liberty!, a biography of Toussaint L'Ouverture

Type

Label

Open the door to liberty!, a biography of Toussaint L'Ouverture

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Open the door to liberty!

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

a biography of Toussaint L'Ouverture

Summary

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

Target audience

juvenile

Classification