 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 846
...means favourable to the blacks — " it must be allowed that if St Domingo still carried the colours of France, it was solely owing to an old negro, who seemed to bear a commission from heaven to unite its dilacerated members." It tended also to promote the cause of good order in the island,... | |
 | Wilson Armistead - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 668
...Lacroix, a historian unfriendly to the Blacks, wrote, that "if St. Domingo still carried the colours of France, it was solely owing to an old Negro, who seemed to be appointed by heaven to unite its severed members." The war with the Spanish part of the island was... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...Lacroix, though prejudiced against blacks, wrote, " That the island was preserved to the French government was solely owing to an old negro, who seemed to bear a commission from Heaven." Strangers who visited St. Domingo expressed their surprise to see cities rising from their ashes, fields... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 284
...means favourable to the blacks — ' it must be allowed that if St Domingo still carried the colours of France, it was solely owing to an old negro, who seemed to bear a commission from Heaven to unite its dilacerated members.' It tended also to promote the cause of good order in the island,... | |
 | Harry Graham - 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...and if San Domingo still carried the colours of France, it was generally admitted to be solely due to "an old negro who seemed to bear a commission from heaven to reunite its dilacerated members." Perhaps the most graphic account of Toussaint's rule is to be... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...friendly to the blacks, ' that if St. Domingo still carried the colours of France, it must be allowed it was solely owing to an old negro, who seemed to bear a commission from heaven to reunite its dilacerated members.' The French continued to send out commissioners, but Toussaint... | |
 | 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...friendly to the blacks, ' that if St. Domingo still carried the colours of France, it must be allowed it was solely owing to an old negro, who seemed to bear a commission from heaven to reunite its dilacerated members.' The French continued to send out commissioners, but Toussaint... | |
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It must be allowed/ says General de Lacroix, in his memoirs of the revolution in St Domingo, an account by no means favourable to the blacks — ' it must be allowed that if St Domingo still carried the colours of France, it was solely owing to an old... 