In the meeting room on the second floor of the Port-au-Prince Council Hall, Oreal and three Abolitionist congressmen looked on in astonishment at Brissot, who was delivering an impassioned speech, repeatedly trying to stop him from continuing.
The two Slave-holding Faction congressmen were even more stunned, rooted to their spot.
Brissot, completely indifferent to everyone's expressions, raised his arms and proclaimed loudly, "We cannot be satisfied with the liberation of the black slaves in Santo Domingo alone. Instead, we must let this great cause shine throughout the entire Caribbean!
"The sinful and shameful practice of slavery must disappear from this world.
"In Jamaica, Banaba, and even the West Indies, the sinful whip still lashes the blacks who should be free!
"And we, as the spreaders of the spirit of freedom, possess an army capable of battling the slave-holders, the support of 500,000 free blacks. What reason do we have not to liberate the slaves of the Caribbean..."