This stirring biography charts the life and times of Toussaint L'Ouverture who rose to be a revolutionary leader on the island of Haiti leading his people to freedom from enslavement. Alongside its account of battles and campaigns, it explains how the concepts of liberty, equality and brotherhood central to the French and American revolutions underpinned this first triumphant slave rebellion in history, one which was to shake the world. Small, brightly coloured paintings illustrate key moments in the story.