It is fitting to end with the example of Sophie Elisabeth doin, née Mamy, who stands as undoubtedly the most fervent and committed abolitionist of the women considered in this book. Central to her abolitionist thought is a utopian vision of the harmonious roles of fathers, daughters, and slaves. Doin fashions a composite model—a man and a woman in some cases, a black and a white in others—which symbolizes the unity of divergent but complementary human traits. This model, which parallels and emblematizes the unity presumably achieved by France's recognition of Haiti in 1825, is the basis of Doin's abolitionism. It also provides the foundation of her views about women which, if not in the forefront of early nineteenth-century French thought about women, has significant feminist components. Doin wants to believe that daughters and wives can be partners with fathers and husbands, just as she believes that whites and blacks can. These partners should work productively together, without a superior male authority. An independent woman and an active writer for over two decades of her short life—she was born in 1800 and died in 1846—Doin remained convinced of the possibility and desirability of harmonious gender and race models of justice and benevolence. Unity should provide the means through which women, like slaves, could best coexist in a society riddled with injustice and oppression. As we shall see later, Doin's vision doubles that of the important Haitian writer Juste Chanlatte in L'Histoire de la catastrophe de Saint-Domingue.