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  • 1799-Toussaint, now the De Facto ruler of Hispaniola, Forms, a constitution. he declares himself governor general for life, with great power.
  • …yet, he is careful not to claim independence. Saint-Domingue remains a colony of France.
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  • There cannot exist slaves
  • Servitude is forever abolished
  • All men are born, live and die free
  • …and French
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  • 'I did oblige my fellow-countrymen to work; it was to teach them the value of true liberty.…The long-term freedom of the people depends on the viability of the economy.'
  • Return to the fields
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  • emancipated, and paid
  • …but, return
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  • Agriculture, tranquility, c-c-commerce
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  • The island attained a d-degree of splendor which it had never before s-seen
  • And all this, I dare to s-say, was my work
  • They offer to recognize him as king of an independent nation. he refuses-preferring liberation, not power for its own sake...and not while they maintain slavery.
  • Toussaint trades with the British and the Americans-arms and goods in exchange for sugar, coffee and promises not to invade Jamaica or the American south.
  • In January 1801, Toussaint breaks the deal, his armies also taking Santo Domingo.
  • Napoleon, promising not to reinstate slavery, confirms Toussaint's governorship-on condition he not invade the island's eastern half, still under French authority.
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  • If Bonaparte is the first man in France
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  • Toussaint is the first man in the archipelago of the Antilles
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  • 'It says that the appetite comes with eating …we must believe that it is so with ambition.'
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  • This man is a nation
  • 1802-Angered by Toussaint's Boldness, Napoleon sends his Brother in law general Charles Emanuel Leclerc to regain control...
  • ...With 20,000 veterans of the Napoleonic wars.
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  • Show no mercy
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  • It is the only thing that will suppress Them
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  • Inspire great terror
  • 'General Leclerc entered the colony without warning, fell upon the inhabitants at their work and shed their blood upon their native soil. I took up arms for the freedom of my color, which France alone proclaimed, but which she has no right to nullify.'
  • We will defend it or perish!
  • It is our own
  • Our liberty is no longer in her hands
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