Toussaint Louverture letter to Napoléon from onboard the Heros

Deceived and captured by the troops of French General Leclerc and put on board of the Le Heros - to be transferred to the French mountain prison Fort de Joux - Toussaint Louverture wrote this letter at the beginning of his captivity to Napoléon Bonaparte pleading for the safety of his his wife, Suzanne Louverture and his children.

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