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Quotes from Letter to the General Assembly — Toussaint Louverture

1743–1803 France

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We are black, it is true, but tell us, gentle men, you who are so judicious, what is the law that says that the black man must belong to and be the property of the white man?

Letter to the General Assembly (1792)

For too long we have borne your chains without thinking of shaking them off, but any authority which is not founded on virtue and humanity, and which only tends to subject one's fellow man to slavery, must come to an end, and that end is yours.

Letter to the General Assembly (1792)

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