He actually has supplanted him in certain of the West Indian islands, where the sin of the white in enslaving the black has been visited upon the head of the wrongdoer by his victim with a dramatically terrible completeness of revenge.
Roosevelt discusses the consequences of slavery in the West Indies, highlighting the revenge of the enslaved against their oppressors.
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