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1793-12-01

Polvérel wrote to Sonthonax against burning the colony, resolving to bury himself under the ruins of Saint-Domingue before he would provoke its destruction…

Haitian

Polvérel wrote to Sonthonax against burning the colony, resolving to bury himself under the ruins of Saint-Domingue before he would provoke its destruction; Ardouin sees in the letter a flash of genius foreseeing the future of the African race in the Antilles.

Source  ·  p. 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 340 Beaubrun Ardouin, Études sur l'histoire d'Haïti, suivies de la vie du général J.-M. Borgella (t. II) (1853), p. 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 340