Author: Baron De Vastey

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Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781330914946

Excerpt from An Essay on the Causes of the Revolution and Civil Wars of Hayti: Being a Sequel to the Political Remarks Upon Certain French Publication and Journals Concerning Hayti It would likewise practically demonstrate, that superiority both of intellectual and moral power, is not confined to any one complexion, and that generous and virtuous feelings are not the exclusive privilege of Europeans. In the instructive records of such a history, we should see a people, sunk but a few short years ago in the lowest depths of ignorance, and brutalized by the most barbarous despotism, calling into action, after their emancipation from bondage, those dormant energies of the soul, and those latent virtues of the heart, which we had been taught to believe them incapable of possessing, and, not only forming themselves into an organised and well regulated community, but starting, almost per saltum, into notice, as statesmen, legislators and historians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.