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

Toussaint L’Ouverture says that people faced dangers to gain their liberty and would “brave death” to keep it. This means they would rather die than be enslaved again, which matches choice C.

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