15042: Lawless: Re: 15034: Toussaint Louverture and the United States

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Robert Lawless <robert.lawless@wichita.edu>
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Why not Jean-Jacques Dessalines?

At 07:20 AM 3/7/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Thirteen States and the conquest of the West! Toussaint is the real hero
>of the
>Louisiana Purchase!  In this year 2003, when we commemorate the 200th
>anniversary of the death of the Greatest Emancipator of all times, "the
>greatest man of the millennium just past", would it not be justice if
>Toussaint
>Louverture, who has added so many stars to the Star-Spangled Banner were
to be
>recognized, at least symbolically, as one of the Founding Fathers of the
>United
>States of America?