Open the Door to Liberty! : A Biography of Toussaint lOuverture

English

ISBN: 0618605703

EAN: 9780618605705

Category: Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage/Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Historical/Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / Caribbean & Latin America/

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Release Date: 01/31/2009

Age Range: 9-12

Synopsis: 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.

Open the Door to Liberty! : A Biography of Toussaint lOuverture

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Reinforced

Height: 0.25 inches

Width: 7.0 inches

Length: 9.0 inches

Weight: 15.38 oz

Pages: 80