Napoleon’s colonial minister openly declared that blacks were unfit for liberty

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His colonial minister, Decrès, wrote: “I want slaves in our colonies. Liberty is a food for which the stomachs of the negroes are not yet prepared. We must seize any occasion to give them back their natural food, except for the seasonings required by justice and humanity.” — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 1007

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