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Deception

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Left: During the truce Toussaint is deceived and arrested by LeClerc. LeClerc felt that with Toussaint out of the way, the Blacks would surrender (1937) / Right: Deception (1997)

Tied down to a chair, Toussaint L’Ouverture is threatened by four French soldiers. Deception is one of the few prints of the revised series to directly show interactions between the Haitian revolutionaries and their White colonizers. Though the Frenchmen are interrogating L'Ouverture, their blades point toward one another, making us ask who is deceiving whom? The situation may be grim, but it is only a momentary defeat for L'Ouverture.




 

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