When the four million began to speak, a challenge was made to every existing institution in society. Oluth Emi O'Taiwo: enslaved people had been living with that contradiction ever since they heard about the ideals that were going to be the basis of this republic. "I think they found the ideals, particularly in the era of the revolution, exciting and important," she says.
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