Read the passage. I declare to you to re-establish slavery would be to attempt the impossible: we have known how to face dangers to obtain our liberty, we shall know how to brave death to maintain it. Toussaint L’Ouverture, 1797 The passage shows that L’Ouverture believed that freed enslaved persons would not be able to appreciate freedom. not fight for freedom anymore. rather die than go back to being enslaved. rather go back to being enslaved than die.