Open the Door to Liberty!: A Biography of Toussaint L'ouverture

About this book

The story of revolution leaderToussaint LOuverture 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 LOuverture was one of those slaves . . . but not for long. The day would come when LOuverture would lead his islands slaves into a revolution for freedom and his efforts would influence the course of world history.