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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.

— Toussaint Louverture Letter to the General Assembly (1792)

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"Address to Soldiers for the Universal Destruction of Slavery", Bulletin official de St-Domingue, 18 May 1797

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