Both wartime leaders accused each other of being the true racist

Evidence

“And is there, in any case,” Rigaud continued, “such a difference between Toussaint’s color and my own?” “I am too strongly penetrated by the Rights of Man to believe that one color is superior to another,” Rigaud declared. It was Louverture, he insisted, who was the real racist. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 818

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• DEFINE: Illustrates how ‘race war’ framing in the historiography obscures that both protagonists invoked color to smear the other.