Toussaint L'Ouverture: The Fight for Haiti's Freedom
By Walter Dean Myers, Jacob Lawrence
Categories: Children's Books, History
Toussaint L'Ouverture: The Fight for Haiti's Freedom is a picture book biography by Walter Dean Myers, illustrated by Jacob Lawrence. Myers tells how Toussaint L'Ouverture, born into slavery on the French colony of Saint-Domingue, became the leader of the revolution that ended slavery and led to Haiti's independence. The text is set alongside Lawrence's series of paintings of the revolution, made in the 1930s, introducing young readers to this history.
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- John Green: “When you're getting interested in a subject or you want to really learn about something, read the kids book. Like Walter Dean Myers book about the Haitian Revolution or this book about tuberculosis, like, they answer all the questions that like the grown-up history books assume that you already know.”