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Scene from Toussaint Louverture by Daniel Weinstein and Victoria Auyoung

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  • PARIS, FRANCE
  • "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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