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Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence

I would point out to them the revolutions of Hayti, where, in the midst of the orgies and incantations of civil war, there appeared, as a spirit of peace, the patriot, the father, the benefactor of mankind—Toussaint L’Ouverture, a freedman, who had been taught to read while in slavery!