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“[in response to Jean-François, who claimed that, "there is no irrevocable liberty for the former slaves except that which the Spanish monarch would grant them because, as a legitimate king, he alone has the right to legitimate that freedom"] . . . [W]e are free by natural right. It could only be kings . . . who dare claim the right to reduce into servitude men made like them and whom nature has made free.”
Toussaint L'Ouverture, The Haitian Revolution
“In overthrowing me, you have cut only the trunk of the tree of liberty. It will spring up again for its roots are numerous and deep!”
Toussaint L'Ouverture

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