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        "alt": "It can only be Kings whose very name expresses\nwhat is most vile and low, who dared to arrogate the right\nof reducing to slavery men made like themselves, whom\nnature had made free.\n\"The King of Spain furnished you abundantly with\narms and ammunition. Use them to tighten your chains.\n• • . As for us, we have need for no more than stones and\nsticks to make you dance the Carmagnole. , • ,\"I\n\"You have received commissions and you have guar\nantees. Guard your liveries and your parchments. One day\nthey will serve you as the fastidious titles of our former\naristocrats served them. If the King of the French who\ndrags his misery from court to court has need of slaves to\nassist him in his magnificence, let him go seek it among\nother Kings who count as many slaves as they have sub\njects.\n\"You conclude, vile slaves as you are, by oHering us\nthe protection of the King, your Master. Learn and say to\nCasa Calvo [the Spanish Marquis] that republicans cannot\ntreat with a King. Let him come and you with him, we are\nready to receive you as republicans should. , , ,\"\nThat was the style, the accent of Toussaint and his\nmen. The British and the Spaniards could not defeat it. All\nthey could oHer was money, and there are periods in hu·\nman history when money is not enough,",
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  "text": "\"That was the style, the accent of Toussaint and his men. The British and the Spaniards could not defeat it. All they could offer was money, and there are periods in human history when money is not enough.\"\n\nThe Black Jacobins, \"The Rise of Toussaint\", C.L.R. James"
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