Letter To The Slaves Unfortunates Analysis

The author’s background makes his opinions clear. The author was born in Haiti, but moved to France, and later fled to Haiti from the French Revolution. He became a soldier and fought with the British and French to put down the slave rebellion in Haiti, which reveals that he was against the abolition of slavery. Because the document is a letter and not a public article (yet), it might have been easier for the author to express his true opinions. In his letter, he calls the slaves “unfortunates” and refers to their countries as “savage” and “barbaric”. He pities the slaves, but for the way their countries were, rather than for their enslavement. He assumes that the countries they came from were terrible, primitive places to live, and that slavery