"Read Soulouque, the Haitian man.* It has a wonderful interest just now. Slavery has to go, of course—and joy go with it. These Yankees may kill us and lay waste the land for a while, but conquer us? Never!"
*Faustin Elie Soulouque took part as a slave in the Haitian revolt against the French in 1803. He became president of Haiti in 1847 and crowned himself emperor two years later. Several biographies of Soulouque were published in Paris during the 1850s.
