Louis Delgrès confronted arriving French troops and issued a proclamation appealing against oppression. Resistance defended emancipation won during the revolutionary period. The conflict exposed the gulf between French claims to universal liberty and attempts to restore colonial control over Black people.
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Delgrès’s resistance defended emancipation against a renewed colonial threat.
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Freedom had to be defended through action; it was not secure simply because an earlier government had proclaimed it.