Quote of the Day

For too long, gentlemen by way of abuses that one can never too strongly accuse of having taken pace because of our lack of understanding and ignorance - for every long time, I say - we have been victims of your greed and your avarice. Under the blows of your barbarous whip we have accumulated for you the treasures you enjoy in this colony; the human race has suffered to see with what barbarity you have treated men like yourself...

- Toussaint Louverture, Letters to the General Assembly (1792)