... envy or prejudice, Toussaint had formed this committee of eight white proprietors and one mulatto,--not a soldier nor a negro on the list, although Haytian history proves that, with the exception of Rigaud , the rarest genius has always been shown by pure negroes. Again, it was 1800, at a time when England was poisoned on every page of her statute-book with religious intolerance, when a man could no...