"In drawing up the constitution of the French people we paid no attention to the unhappy Negroes... Let us repair the wrong—let us proclaim the liberty of the Negroes" (78).
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OMG slavery is abolished!
"A citizeness of colour... has just felt so keen a joy at seeing us give liberty to all her brethren that she has fainted" (78).
"The convention has abolished slavery?" (77).
"Slavery is abolished in every department and colony of France. That is the news I have brought" (76).
HAITI
"I was there. I saw it. Colonel Louverture, I am a white man, and have never felt nor feared the burdens of slavery, but at no moment in my private or public life have I been so much moved as by this spontaneous recognition of the rights of your oppressed and suffering people" (78-79).
"You have given me your confidence. Let me give you mine. Here are my two sons, whom I treasure most on earth. My army and all my influence are now yours, and as a guarantee of my good faith I shall hand my sons over to you to be sent to France to be educated in the true principles of liberty" (80).
To France!!
"The boys– to grow up free– never to be slaves. I used to dream of it at nights" (80).
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