Blades of freedom
(Graphic Novel)

"A tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase"--Cover

Map illustrations on endpapers.

Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of the Haitian Revolution and its role in Napoleon's decision to sell Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe the whole Louisiana Territory, when they sought to buy only New Orleans.

Why would Napoleon Bonaparte sell the Louisiana Territory to the recently formed United States of America? It all comes back to the island nation of Haiti, which Napoleon had planned to use as a base for trade with North America. While Napoleon climbed the ranks of the French army and government, enslaved people were organizing in Haiti under the leadership of Fraṅois Mackandal, Dutty Boukman, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and Touissant LOuverture, who in 1791 led the largest uprising of enslaved people in historythe Haitian Revolution.

Accelerated Reader AR,MG,3.7,2,511298.