Gesturing toward the swirls and arrows in the ironwork last week at the New-York Historical Society , Mr. Wilson said the name of the balustrade 's creator , Pierre Charles L'Enfant , got him thinking about the link between the French and American Revolutions , American slavery , and the revolt of Haitian slaves against France .
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