harvestxvx:“Starting in the 1780s, he mounted a political struggle on behalf of the free-col
harvestxvx: “Starting in the 1780s, he mounted a political struggle on behalf of the free-coloreds of Saint-Domingue by petitioning the head of the Colonial Ministry in Paris.” I was just doing homework for my Transatlantic Revolutions class, so the nearest book to me was about the slave revolt in Haiti. “I looked beyond; Flowers are not, Nor tinted leaves. On the sea beach A solitary cottage stands In the waning light Of an autumn eve.” The Book Of Tea, Okakura Kakuzo -- source link