St Domingo Its Revolution And Its Hero Toussaint Louverture An Historical Di
St Domingo Its Revolution And Its Hero Toussaint Louverture An Historical Di
Charles Wyllys Elliott
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The insane pride of the whites w^orked its own punishment, and now a hundred more w^ere to be slaughtered. No white was there to save them, and no God to wrest them away. Then a man, black as Dr. Pennington, indifferent in person, unpleas- ing of visage, meanly dressed, makes his way among the crowd to Biassou swelling with rage ; he speaks to him a few w^ords, quieth^, calmly ; they are to the purpose. The General's face is composed, he listens, he countermands his orders, and the whites are s...aved. * The negro who saves them is Toussaint Breda, after- ward called Louverture. The son of an African chief, Gaou-Guinon, with no drop of white blood in his veins, he had been the born slave of the Count de Breda, and had been well treated by his ]\Ianager, Bayou de Libertas. He was the husband of one w^ife, and the father of children. With religious aspirations, an inflexible integrity, an * Lacroix, p. 303. Life of Toussaint, by Joun R. Beard, D. D. , of Leipsic. London, 1853. 2 Sf) Till-: MAN.
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