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“In overthrowing me, you have cut down in Saint-Domingue only the trunk of the tree of liberty of the blacks; it will spring up again from the roots, for they are deep and numerous.”
As reported by Pamphile de Lacroix · Words on boarding Le Héros, Cap-Français, June 1802; Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la révolution de Saint-Domingue, vol. 2 (1819), p. 204
Context Seized by French troops after being lured to a meeting under General Leclerc’s orders, he spoke to the ship’s commander as he was put aboard for deportation to France.
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