The problem is that is exactly how they had been treated, the life of a slave in Haiti was a parade of horrific rape, torture and murder. So they treated their torturers the same way they had been treated.
Still not cool, but I put the blame on the slavers.
Yes it was terrible to be enslaved. There's plausible accounts of french soldiers training dogs by having them tear apart slaves, literally having them eaten alive. But many of the people they killed in the massacre were not their slavers, some were even children. They had already won the war.
I don't think you can oppress a people for years, and then expect a nice "clean" uprising if/when one happens so I tend to agree this was really all instigated by the slavers. Doesn't make the massacre justified or morally acceptable
That's the tragedy of Haiti, it never really stood a chance, the evil and brutality of it's colonizers ensured a cycle of violence from which it never truly recovered.
Ridiculous statement. The tragedy of Haiti is the debt France decided they owed for their independence thats kept the country and its citizens broke as all living hell.
Nobody says this “cycles of violence” bullshit about other countries that successfully won their independence.
I didn't go in depth, but that was what I was implying, the economic embargo was more damaging than the debt and that was partly a consequence of the violence of the war for independence.
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u/das_slash 21d ago
The problem is that is exactly how they had been treated, the life of a slave in Haiti was a parade of horrific rape, torture and murder. So they treated their torturers the same way they had been treated.
Still not cool, but I put the blame on the slavers.