This Is America!

Toussaint’s Clause by Gordon S. Brown

I selected the audiobook version because it’s less expensive, but also because history and self-help books are nice to listen to on the go or while getting in those 10,000 steps daily. The great contradiction of the American Revolution was that while it was fighting for freedom millions of human beings were in bondage throughout the new world. The “rebellion” in Haiti, which saw the powerful Toussaint L’Ouverture mount an army of enslaved people against the mighty French empire and win, rocked The New World at its core. This could be the drum beat to inspire the millions throughout the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, Maryland to do the same. This book confronts how the Founding Fathers of America dealt with the inconvenience of their hypocrisy.

Originally posted 2018-07-03 21:27:35.