{"id":2521,"date":"2015-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/19\/je-suis-de-la-couleur-de-ceux-quon-persecute\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:15:18","slug":"je-suis-de-la-couleur-de-ceux-quon-persecute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/je-suis-de-la-couleur-de-ceux-quon-persecute\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab Je suis de la couleur de ceux qu&#039;on pers\u00e9cute&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/toussaint_louverture.jpg\" alt=\"Toussaint Louverture citation\" title=\"Toussaint Louverture citation\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" width=\"156\" height=\"259\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0Je suis de la couleur de ceux qu\u2019on pers\u00e9cute.\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><span data-href=\"\/auteurs\/toussaint-louverture\"><span class=\"author\"><span class=\"name\"><span class=\"caps\">TOUSSAINT<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">LOUVERTURE<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> (1743-1803)<\/p>\n<p class=\"source\"><cite>Toussaint Louverture<\/cite> (1850), Alphonse de Lamartine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Ainsi parle le h\u00e9ros de ce po\u00e8me dramatique en cinq actes et en vers.<\/p>\n<p>La nuit du 22 au 23\u00a0ao\u00fbt 1791, Fran\u00e7ois Toussaint prend la t\u00eate de la r\u00e9volte des Noirs \u00e0 Saint-Domingue, colonie des Antilles (\u00eele d\u2019Ha\u00efti). Rest\u00e9s esclaves apr\u00e8s le timide d\u00e9cret du 13\u00a0mai, ils veulent les m\u00eames droits que les citoyens blancs. \u00c0 l\u2019oppos\u00e9, les colons s\u2019effraient du droit de vote donn\u00e9 aux mul\u00e2tres. L\u2019insurrection aboutit \u00e0 des massacres entre Blancs et Noirs, sucreries et plantations de caf\u00e9 sont d\u00e9vast\u00e9es.<\/p>\n<p>Les planteurs vont demander secours \u00e0 l\u2019Espagne et l\u2019Angleterre, mais Toussaint se rallie \u00e0 la R\u00e9volution, quand le gouvernement fran\u00e7ais abolit l\u2019esclavage, en 1794.<\/p>\n<p>Son courage lui vaudra le surnom de Louverture, celui qui ouvre et enfonce les br\u00e8ches dans les troupes adverses\u00a0! Il devient gouverneur de la colonie prosp\u00e8re, les anciens esclaves travaillant comme salari\u00e9s dans les plantations. Il proclame l\u2019autonomie de l\u2019\u00eele en 1801. Bonaparte enverra 25\u00a0000 hommes contre Toussaint, qui mourra (de froid) en captif, dans le Jura. L\u2019ind\u00e9pendance d\u2019Ha\u00efti, premier \u00c9tat noir ind\u00e9pendant en 1804, est la victoire posthume de ce grand leader noir. Et le 23\u00a0ao\u00fbt est devenu \u00ab\u00a0Journ\u00e9e internationale du souvenir de la traite n\u00e9gri\u00e8re et de son abolition\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Chronique R\u00e9volution citations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/boutique\/volume-5\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/histoire-en-citations-volume-5-12.jpg\" alt=\"Chronique R\u00e9volution citations\" title=\"Chronique R\u00e9volution citations\" style=\"float: left;margin: 10px\" width=\"165\" height=\"220\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Chronique R\u00e9volution citations\" href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/boutique\/volume-5\" target=\"_blank\">Feuilletez notre Chronique sur la R\u00e9volution pour tout savoir<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\r\n        a .cit-num {\r\n            text-decoration: none !important;\r\n            color: inherit !important;\r\n        }\r\n    <\/style>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ab\u00a0Je suis de la couleur de ceux qu&#8217;on pers\u00e9cute.\u00a0\u00bb TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE (1743-1803) Toussaint Louverture (1850), Alphonse de Lamartine. Ainsi parle le h\u00e9ros de ce po\u00e8me dramatique en cinq actes et en vers. La nuit du 22 au 23\u00a0ao\u00fbt 1791, Fran\u00e7ois Toussaint prend la t\u00eate de la r\u00e9volte des Noirs \u00e0 Saint-Domingue, colonie des Antilles (\u00eele [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"iawp_total_views":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1467],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronique-citation-du-jour-revolution-toussaint-louverture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}