Open the Door to Liberty Author:Anne Rockwell 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 whe... more »n L'Ouverture would lead his island's slaves into a revolution for freedom, and his efforts would influence the course of world history.« less