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New York, Random House [1954]
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LibraryThing member joaofelipe
One of the greatest books I have ever read. Toussaint Loverture was a genius.
LibraryThing member lifespringworc
The life of the black man who led his people--plantation slaves--in a revolt against their masters.
LibraryThing member FriendsLibraryFL
In the years just after the American Revolution, the tiny mountainous island of Haiti was seething with unrest. A colony of France in those days, it had half a million Negro slaves ad fewer than 40,000 whites. Brutally the French planters beat their black slaves, forcing them to work from dawn to
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dusk in the cane fields, driving them to starvation and misery. Then into the foreground came a small misshapen figure of a man wearing a yellow turban - Toussaint Louverture, the grandson of an African chieftain. Among the oppressed and tortured mass he was one of the few slaves of Haiti who was acquainted with the affairs of history and dedicated to the rights of man. At first the French ridiculed him as 'the monkey in the yellow turban,' but soon they realized this little man was in reality a giant of intellect and leadership. Vividly and dramatically, Katharine Scherman tells the story in The Slave Who Freed Haiti. Show Less
LibraryThing member m.belljackson
From 1954 comes this astonishing children's book that will enlighten people of all ages!
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1954
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182 p.; 22 cm