How Toussaint L’Ouverture’s Sacrifice Rekindled My Haitian Pride and Hope, After a Life of Shame and Anger
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For years, I refused to visit France, although I have many relatives living there. I did not want to visit a nation which had kidnapped and enslaved my African ancestors. The slaves of France’s richest colony, Saint Domingue, spent 13 bloody years fighting for freedom from chattel slavery and colonial domination. They formalized their hard-won […]
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