Blades of Freedom

Age of Revolutions

Blades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #10) Author: Hale, Nathan Buy at Amazon | BookShop.org Time Period: Age of Revolutions Time Frame: 1803-1804 Geographic Area: North America Country: United States Topics: Louisiana Purchase Genre: Non Fiction Reading Age: Middle Grade, Upper Middle Grade Format: Graphic Novel Published: 2020 Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales 1) One Dead Spy 2) Big Bad Ironclad! 3) Donner Dinner Party 4) Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood 5) The Underground Abductor 6) Alamo All-Stars 7) Raid of No Return 8) Lafayette! 9) Major Impossible 10) Blades of Freedom 11) Cold War Correspondent

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Discover the story of the Haitian Revolution—the largest uprising of enslaved people in history—in this installment of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series

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 François Mackandal, Dutty Boukman, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and Touissant L’Ouverture, who in 1791 led the largest uprising of enslaved people in history—the Haitian Revolution.

Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales are graphic novels that tell the thrilling, shocking, gruesome, and TRUE stories of American history. Read them all—if you dare!

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