Use this excerpt from Frederick Douglass's 1893 speech about Haiti to people in Chicago to answer the following question: "Until Haiti spoke, the slave ship, followed by hungry sharks, greedy to devour the dead and dying slaves flung overboard to feed them, ploughed in peace the South Atlantic, painting the sea with the Negro's blood." Source: Public Domain, Frederick Douglass, Lecture on Haiti, 1893 What do Douglass's words suggest about the effects of Haiti's revolution?

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4 March, 07:09

Use this excerpt from Frederick Douglass's 1893 speech about Haiti to people in Chicago to answer the following question: "Until Haiti spoke, the slave ship, followed by hungry sharks, greedy to devour the dead and dying slaves flung overboard to feed them, ploughed in peace the South Atlantic, painting the sea with the Negro's blood." Source: Public Domain, Frederick Douglass, Lecture on Haiti, 1893 What do Douglass's words suggest about the effects of Haiti's revolution?

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Damon Powell · Answer 1

Frederick Douglass’s lecture on Haiti in 1893 suggests about the effects of the Haiti revolution that the revolution had caused so much blood and countless deaths of the people. There are so many hungry mouths to feed but too little food available.