Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Paroles d’outre-tombe
There are men who are representatives of their race, of their nation, and of their generation. They are exceptional beings who are samples of their society, or they are at the forefront of humanity. They not only left their mark on their time but they also left their mark on the universal history of peoples and nations. They have the greatness and quality of eternal life. They belong to any time and any place. They are people who have accomplished unique facts and changed the course of history through their actions. At one point in their lives, they stood up, and they defied a system. They led the fight that opened the narrow path of justice, freedom, and equality for all. These men are heroes, having a power of thought and a strength of unusual souls. God created them to make them forgers of conscience, revolutionaries, leaders of men, and leaders. They are the true kings of this world! Dessalines was one of those men—a genius of his race. He was a giant in the history of humanity.
Toussaint Louverture
Le procès de la traite des Noirs
Written at a time when discrimination and racism are the most serious scourge that modern society faces, the book Toussaint Louverture: Le procès de la traite des Noirs, comes at the right time to wake up the global conscience about the wrongs of slavery and the need to fight this evil that threatens to appear in its hideous form.
By placing Toussaint Louverture, who initiated the Haitian revolution 1804, as the main hero of this historical novel, the author wears a powerful message in which he asserts that the will to restore dignity must become a human passion. An obligation of world leaders to refocus on the fundamental priorities, namely: education, housing, work, safety, sanitary and food give hope of living to the weak in underdeveloped countries, and same time to eradicate misery on our planet.
Toussaint Louverture
The Trial of the Slave Trafficking
Written at a time when discrimination and racism are the most serious scourge facing modern society today, the book Toussaint Louverture: The Trial of the Slave Trafficking comes at the right moment to awaken the global conscience on the wrongs of slavery and the need to fight this evil that threatens to appear in its ugly form in the sixteenth century. England voted to ban the slave trade in 1807, the United States in 1808, Portugal in 1811, and Holland in 1814. France itself abolished slavery on April 27, 1848, so close to fifty-nine
years after adopting the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789. In Venezuela, it was only on March 24, 1854, that Pres. José Grégoire Monagas decreed the abolition of slavery. In Colombia, slavery was abolished on May 21, 1851, by Pres. José Hilario López after a short civil war that was won by the abolitionist liberals.
In the United States, the abolition of slavery was proclaimed by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. The text signed by Lincoln became the thirteenth amendment of the American Constitution on December 13, 1865. Brazil is the last country in America to abolish slavery. The country voted “Lei Ăurea” (Golden Law) on May 13, 1888, in the Parliament under the regency of Isabella of Brazil, the daughter of Emperor Peter II.
By placing Toussaint Louverture, who initiated the Haitian Revolution of 1804, as the main hero of this historical novel, the author carries a powerful message in which he affirms that the desire to restore dignity must become a human passion. It is an obligation of the world leaders to refocus on the fundamental priorities of education, housing, work, safety, health, and food; to give hope to the poor in poor countries; and at the same time to eradicate misery on our planet.
—Jean Sénat Fleury