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“The slave-trade and slavery were the economic basis of the French Revolution. ‘Sad irony of human history,’ comments Jaurès. ‘The fortunes created at Bordeaux, at Nantes, by the slave-trade, gave to the bourgeoisie that pride which needed liberty and contributed to human emancipation.”
― The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
― The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
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