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Toussaint Louverture: How Haiti Ended Slavery (and Britain Rewrote the Story)
“In overthrowing me, you have cut down in Saint-Domingue only the trunk of the tree of liberty; it will spring up again from the roots, for they are many and they are deep.” — Toussaint Louverture, 1802 A voice from the plantation In August 1793, amid fire and cane smoke, a proclamation spread through the Read more