&quote;The Hour And The Man&quote;

"The Hour and the Man" by Harriet Martineau is a biography of the famous anti-slavery activist, Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the Haitian Revolution against French colonial rule in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Martineau provides a detailed account of L'Ouverture's life, starting from his early years as a slave in Haiti and his rise to leadership in the Haitian Revolution. She describes...