Blog category: haiti
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Napoleon’s View of Slavery & Slavery in New Orleans
June 6, 2014
While Napoleon condemned the slave trade, he had no strong opposition to slavery. This makes it interesting to imagine how he might have reacted to the slavery he encounters in New Orleans and the other places he visits in my novel Napoleon in America.
We must confess that fate, which sports with man, makes merry work with the affairs of this world.
Napoleon Bonaparte