Louisiana Purchase and Lewis & Clark Images
Black Liberator
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Toussaint Louverture, former slave and leader of the Black uprising in Saint-Domingue
Haitian Revolution
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Engraving of fighting between ex-slaves and French soldiers in Saint-Domingue/Haiti
Sugar: Invaluable Cash Crop
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Sugar cane, driver of the global economy in the 17th and 18th centuries
Journal of Discovery
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A page of Meriwether Lewis' journal, including an illustration of salmon
Napoleon
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Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor and seller of Louisiana
Louisiana Territory
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Map of the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the United States in 1803. 13 states would eventually emerge from the lands acquired.