Diary
Robin Blackburn: In Haiti, 8 October 2009
“... of slaves. Having failed to achieve this, most of them then signed up as soldiers of the Spanish king. The first proclamations of universal emancipation were made separately, but on the same day – 29 August 1793 – by Sonthonax, the Jacobin commissioner, and by Toussaint Louverture, then still a Spanish general. I was impressed that ... ”