Blades of Freedom: a Louisiana Purchase Tale
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales Series
Author: Nathan Hale
Book 10 in the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales series
Pages: 128
Published: 2020
Age: 8+
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!
About the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales Series
Books in series order
- 1.One Dead Spy: A Revolutionary War Tale(2012)
- 2.Big Bad Ironclad! A Civil War Tale(2012)
- 3.Donner Dinner Party: A Pioneer Tale(2013)
- 4.Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood: A World War I Tale(2014)
- 5.The Underground Abductor: An Abolitionist Tale(2015)
- 6.Alamo All-Stars: A Texas Tale(2016)
- 7.Raid of No Return: A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid(2017)
- 8.Lafayette!(2018)
- 9.Major Impossible(2019)
- 10.Blades of Freedom: a Louisiana Purchase Tale(2020)
- 11.Cold War Correspondent: A Korean War Tale(2021)
- 12.Above the Trenches(2023)
Reading age: 8+ years
"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
These are the famous last words of Nathan Hale, a spy for the American rebels in the Revolutionary War.
But who was Nathan Hale? And how did the rebels defeat an army that was bigger, better, stronger and more heavily armed than they were? Find the answers to these questions, as well as many more stories of ingenuity, close calls with danger, and acts of heroism in Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales – a graphic novel series for middle-grade readers dedicated to telling the most thrilling, shocking, gruesome, and TRUE stories of American history. Read them all—if you dare!