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and who retained the attitudes in which they perished,'
paint an awful picture of the enils jf slavery. They
the arm of one victim locked in that of another; hand
in hand; faces fixed on the same object; father, mother,
grouped together.-a family even in death; young wom
in the last moments tIrgot not they were women; bodies
had served as useless ramparts to friendship and to fil
paternal love. The Lsenes were horrible. Nor was their
ror abated by the fact that ravages scarcely less atrocious
been committed by the white invaders. A little before, thlp
of Mancenille had -moked with innocent blood. And on
than one oea:'ion had priiners been slain in hands, in
strike alarm into the defenders of their native so. AlI'
blacks, however, were not barbarians. Many, moved by"
or gratitude, saved the lives of untl;rtunare colonists.
concealed them in the motuntains, and supported them by
they took in hunting. Others led them, through by-paths,
districts occupied byv the Fren h. There were blacks w
prevent suspicion on the part of pursuers, ovrred their
friends with learve and bran', hei andl ounticrlbitrd drunl
ness when they thought Ith.r- was sp-. ;al 'langer of disco
Calamities, public atnd pri sate. s nmiLntm r. u- anrI s terrible, w
more than human strengthh could ,:niur.-, and under their
sure,some p.,-rons loet !heir re.asn and, other .onimitted s
What a complUation of sorrows, all cau s,4 by slavery.
 Having provid,-d Ir the det-nt.e of the u.ountry of the
 bonite, and directed Belair to o0 .-upy the mountains of Veretq
 Toussaint proceeded to execute his daring plan of taking L
 clere in the rear in order to operate a diversion in favor of I
 Artibonite lines, and to reanimate the courage of the Nort
.With a small but resolute force, Toussaint ascended the deflqt
and the chain of mountains which separate the Artibonite fri
the district of Saint Michatl. In vain was General IarQ
detached in pursuit of him by Leklrrc. whb wse army was
movement to attai-k ('rle-ix-Pierrot. Touusaint appeared I
Ennery, and the French garrison which Leclerc had left the


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