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> It was really Toussaint's war. He had to scrounge for supplies, trading coffee and rum to American smugglers for barrels of gunpowder. French republican officials in the colony, despite their speeches about the rights of man and #Toussaint's protestations of loyalty to France, were increasingly uneasy with a black man as the de facto leader of much of the territory. They suspected that he had independence on his mind.
#AdamHochschild in #BuryTheChains #CaribbeanHistory #SlaveRevolt