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Toussaint L'Ouverture Liberates Haiti

You Are There · May 30, 1948 · 30 min · 4,289 words

The transcript of “Toussaint L'Ouverture Liberates Haiti”, an episode of You Are There first broadcast May 30, 1948. 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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John Bailey and the third and then the last of the year for the cups, and the Bingo the West. The native St. Hugh here is the Assembly. Ever since born on the 6th day of May, 1802, the Assembly has been calling St. Bingo down from their mountain huts out of the forest, across the sugarcane fields.

Calling them to assemble here in the burnt-out public square of the cup, the Assembly summons the people to gather for the peace negotiations scheduled between General Cusano del Pure, Commander-in-Chief of the Native Armies of San Domingo, and General Charles Leclerc, Commander of the French Invasion Forces, sent here by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consular France. And in answer to the summons of the Assembly, the people of this tropical

palm-print island that Columbus knew as Haiti, have been gathering here. The people of San Domingo gather in L'acap with a cherished dream in their hearts. Can their liberty be won across a conference table? CVS 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. In CVS is there, you are there. You are there, produced and directed by Robert Louis Cheon, is based on authentic historical fact and quotation.

And now? The Charts to be of good capital and tongue-tailing. The famous by the burning of their houses, summer refugees from the hills, tall, straight, carrying basket with their meager belongings on their heads or on the backs of scrawny burrows.

Their faces are staying with tears, tears of desperate anxiety. All of them are fervently hoping that the coming negotiations between General Toussaint 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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