What Is Toussaint L Ouverture's View Of Nationalism

Nationalist: Toussaint L’Ouverture took many Nationalist beliefs to heart and implemented them in the Haitian constitution. Nationalism is the belief that your country is superior to all other nations, but also that your country deserved your full sacrifice. So in Europe, Nationalist views often coincided with the view that war was necessary to achieve anything, and that peace would destroy their country’s identity. This phenomenon is seen in Prussia, where the people feared Napoleon would destroy their culture, “The Prussians wanted war; war and death they wanted; peace they feared because they could hope for no honorable peace from Napoleon.” Toussaint also feared that Napoleon would destroy Haiti’s identity, but for a different reason.
In the Haitian constitution there is a law that states, “Brotherhood unites Haiti’s citizens; equality before the law is irrefutably established; and no other titles advantages, or privileges can exist, other than those which necessarily result from respect and compensation for services rendered to liberty and independence.” This law was created to directly combat slavery and anyone who tried to reimpose it. But Toussaint did not believe in many of the nationalist views. He also saw that many would try to reimpose slavery under the pretense of love for country, “But the attempts on that liberty which the colonists propose are all the more to be feared because it is with the veil of patriotism that they cover their detestable plans.”(A Black Revolutionary Leader in Haiti: Toussaint