“While the US founders, most of whom were enslavers, were by turns too cowardly, depraved, or self-interested to end slavery, Haiti’s founders, like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, saw “liberty” and “equality” as more than just pretty slogans,” says historian Marlene Daut. | Getty Images By Marlene L. Daut, Ph.D ·Updated February 24, 2022 Photo Credit: ESSENCE
I’m a professor of Black Studies at the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson
