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.
A Biography of Toussaint L'Ouverture
Hardback
Publication Date: 12/01/2009
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.
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.
- ISBN:
- 9780618605705
- 9780618605705
- Category:
- Picture books
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 12-01-2009
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Houghton Mifflin
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 64
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x178x6mm
- Weight:
- 0.41kg
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