For even these masters of the spoken and written word, owing to the class complications of their society, too often had to pause, to hesitate, to qualify. That was why in the hour of danger Toussaint, uninstructed as he was, could find the language and accent of Diderot, Rousseau, and Raynal, of Mirabeau, Robespierre and Danton. The blacks were taking their part in the destruction of European feudalism begun by the French Revolution, and liberty and equality, the slogans of the revolution, meant far more to them than to any Frenchman.
“Leader of a backward and ignorant mass, he was yet in the forefront of the great historical movement of his time.
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