Open the Door to Liberty!

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.