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In
the years just after the American Revolution, the tiny French island colony
of Haiti seethed with unrest. Its half-million Negro slaves, kept in brutal
submission by a handful of white planters, were threatening to revolt.
Into this atmosphere of growing violence came a small, misshapen black man wearing a yellow turban - Toussaint Louverture. He was the leader the slaves had waited for. A giant in intellect, courage, and humanity, he led his people on the difficult path to freedom. |