Asked by christian

Read the passage.

I declare to you to re-establish slavery would be to attempt the impossible: we have known how to face dangers to obtain our liberty, we shall know how to brave death to maintain it.

Toussaint L’Ouverture, 1797

The passage shows that L’Ouverture believed that freed enslaved persons would

not be able to appreciate freedom.
not fight for freedom anymore.
rather die than go back to being enslaved.
rather go back to being enslaved than die

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
rather die than go back to being enslaved.

He says they "shall know how to brave death to maintain" their liberty, meaning they would choose death over a return to slavery.