Excerpt from The Black Man or Haytian Independence: Deduced From Historical Notes, and Dedicated to the Government and People of Hayti
Various views having been entertained, even by the friends of Hayti, as to the real merits of its Independence, it is only due to the Haytian Republic, that a fair statement should appear before the world on this subject; hence, one of the leading purposes of the present work is, to show what that Independence has been ; nor has it been thought that this could be fairly done, without bringing out both the merits and demerits of this interesting question; the national faults, therefore, are brought out in the sense of true and sincere friendship, and pointed to as rocks to be shunned in the nation's future course.
Hayti herself makes no pretensions to superiority; her enlightened sons arc conscious of national defects; it must, however, be acknowledged that injustice has been done her, especially when the great and extraordinary difficulties of her career are fairly considered from the beginning; difficulties which must have rendered Independence, in her case, impossible, had there not been real stamina somewhere.
From the title-page of this work it will be seen that it designs to show what Haitian Independence has been, rather than what it might or ought to have been; its real merits, after a candid examination of what is here advanced, must be left to the fair and honest judgment of mankind.
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