# Quote — Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Dance on the Volcano

> During these days of turmoil, there were more runaway slaves than ever. The constabulary was dog-tired, for not an hour went by where some slave was not brought back in chains, caught mid-flight. Tipped off to what was going on by the domestic slaves, the slaves in the workhouses listened attentively to those words Liberty and Equality, which a bunch of white people, rising up before the whole world, had written in their own blood. (chapter XXIX, p418)

- Author: [Marie Vieux-Chauvet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marie-vieux-chauvet.md)
- Book: [Dance on the Volcano](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marie-vieux-chauvet/dance-on-the-volcano.md)
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> Minette pushed away her plate and stood up. What she wouldn't have given to be alone for a moment, just a moment. Oh, to have a room of my own, to be able to close myself up somewhere to think and to cry as much as I want! she thought to herself. (chapter IX, p120)

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> The volcano, which for long years the planters did not believe existed, was erupting. (chapter XXXV p473)

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> The eyes, if one knows them well, rarely lie (chapter XXII, p342)

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