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Napoleon Written and narrated by John Julius Norwich.
The first black republic in the world, Haiti, was born in 1804 from a slave rebellion.
The man who led that revolt was himself a former slave - Toussaint l'Ouverture. Once they had tasted freedom, the blacks fought desperately to retain it. Napoleon Bonaparte , however, was determined to reduce Toussaint, 'this gilded African' as he called him, to submission.
Producer KENNETH SHEPHEARD (R)