You Are There · January 23, 1949 · 28 min · 4,334 words
The transcript of “Toussaint Louverture Liberates Haiti”, an episode of You Are There first broadcast January 23, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). You Are There plays You Are There free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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The native shan't you hear is the assembly. Ever since dawn on this sixth day of May 1802, the assembly has been calling send a mingle down from their mountain huts out of the forest, across the sugarcane fields.
Calling them to a temple here in the burnt-out public square of the cup. The assembly summons the people to gather for the peace negotiations, scheduled between General Toussama the cure, commander-in-chief of the native armies of send a mingle, and General Toussama the cure.
and General Charles Leclerc, commander of the French invasion forces sent here by Napoleon Bonaparte's first consular threat. And in answer to the summons of the assembly, the people of this tropical palm-pringed island of the Columbus, U.S. Haiti have been gathering here.
The people of San Domingo gather in La Cap, with a cherished dream in their heart. Can there liberty be one across a conference table? CBS takes you back nearly 147 years to the climactic moment in the struggle between European imperialism and an enslaved people for freedom.
All things are, as they were then, except for one thing. When CBS is there, you are there. You are there, produced and directed by Robert Louis Cheyenne, is based on authentic historical fact and quotation.
And now, the Chark city of New York. Some are refugees from the hills, tall, straight, carrying baskets with their meager belongings on their heads, or on the backs of scrawny burrows. Their faces are stained with tears, tears of desperate anxiety.
All of them are fervently hoping that the coming negotiations between General Pusant and General Leclerc will bring the Negroes of San Domingo, the complete and guaranteed abolition of slavery, by the peaceful method of discussion and compromise.
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