QUICK QUESION: During the Haitain Revolution: what is the background contect that lead to the rumors to spread about slavery ending??? How Would You interpret these quotes. If you can provide a lil context that would be great. All of them should be about Haitain Revolution.: -“There can be no slaves on this territory; servitude has been forever abolished. All men are born, live and die there free and French" (Constitution of 1801). -"If there are evil ones who say to the individuals of Saint-Domingue that we arrive to investigate what they did during the time of anarchy, assure them that we are informing ourselves only of their conduct in those circumstances and that we are only investigating the past to learn of the traits that distinguished them in the war they carried out against the English and the Spaniards, who were our enemies” (Napoléon letter to Toussaint Louverture) -Count without any reservation on our esteem, and conduct yourself as should one of the principal citizens of the greatest nation in the world” (Napoléon letter to Toussaint Louverture) -“Your masters slain or put to flight; the English humiliated by defeat; discord extinguished; a land of slavery purified by fire, and reviving more beautiful than ever under liberty; these are your labours, and these the fruits of your labours; and the foe wishes to snatch both out of your hands” (Toussaint L'Ouverture before The Battle of Ravine-à-Couleuvres) -“The slave trade and the importation of blacks in the colonies will be carried out, in accordance with the laws and regulations that existed prior to the 1789 period” (Law of May 20, 1802) -“Tear up the roads with shot; throw corpses and horses into all the fountains; burn and annihilate everything, so that those who have come to reduce us to slavery may have before their eyes the image of that hell which they deserve” (Letter-Toussaint L'Ouverture to Dessaline)
QUICK QUESION: During the Haitain Revolution: what is the background contect that lead to the rumors to spread about slavery ending???
How Would You interpret these quotes. If you can provide a lil context that would be great. All of them should be about Haitain Revolution.:
-“There can be no slaves on this territory; servitude has been forever abolished. All men are born, live and die there free and French" (Constitution of 1801).
-"If there are evil ones who say to the individuals of Saint-Domingue that we arrive to investigate what they did during the time of anarchy, assure them that we are informing ourselves only of their conduct in those circumstances and that we are only investigating the past to learn of the traits that distinguished them in the war they carried out against the English and the Spaniards, who were our enemies” (Napoléon letter to Toussaint Louverture)
-Count without any reservation on our esteem, and conduct yourself as should one of the principal citizens of the greatest nation in the world” (Napoléon letter to Toussaint Louverture)
-“Your masters slain or put to flight; the English humiliated by defeat; discord extinguished; a land of slavery purified by fire, and reviving more beautiful than ever under liberty; these are your labours, and these the fruits of your labours; and the foe wishes to snatch both out of your hands” (Toussaint L'Ouverture before The Battle of Ravine-à-Couleuvres)
-“The slave trade and the importation of blacks in the colonies will be carried out, in accordance with the laws and regulations that existed prior to the 1789 period” (Law of May 20, 1802)
-“Tear up the roads with shot; throw corpses and horses into all the fountains; burn and annihilate everything, so that those who have come to reduce us to slavery may have before their eyes the image of that hell which they deserve” (Letter-Toussaint L'Ouverture to Dessaline)
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