(Also known as the South African War) between the British and the Boers was the first modern ''total'' war. The Boars were Dutch farmers with European ancestry who gradually settled in Africa many years before other Europeans and were considered Africans.
The main idea of Toussaint L'Ouverture in this passage is that after being the first black republic carried out by slaves successfully in the world (Haiti in 1804), the citizens would not allow other countries, such as Great Britain or Spain, to take possession of their land again and get back to the situation and life they lived in slavery.
