To be clear, this was a horrible event - but frequently like here it leaves out any other events during the period.
Killing 2000 whites at once is horrible. It came the end of a fight for independence / freedom from slavery that had been killing on average 10,000 blacks per year for 100 years. Over 1 million blacks died in Haiti during slavery.
Killing does not justify killing, but at the same time 2,000 in the context of 1 million is something different. And yes those 1 million included women and children as well.
This was not peaceful treatment:
> Torture of slaves was routine; they were whipped, burned, buried alive, restrained and allowed to be bitten by swarms of insects, mutilated, raped, and had limbs amputated.
The life expectancy of an enslaved person was 3 years. Yes that level of absurd. It's almost unfathomable.
And during that same war Napoleon's armies were also committing massacres - and the thing that stopped them from elevating to genocide was that they kept losing battles/territory. Ie one army succeeded at what the other failed at.
What happened in Haiti and the major powers treatment of the colony was disgusting and severely understudied/unknown by most people.
Nope, not that. It means history does not happen in a vacuum.
But I don't want this to devolve into an internet argument, especially not on this topic, and I feel it tip toeing towards that line - so I'll gracefully end my replies here. Cheers.
Killing 2000 whites at once is horrible. It came the end of a fight for independence / freedom from slavery that had been killing on average 10,000 blacks per year for 100 years. Over 1 million blacks died in Haiti during slavery.
Killing does not justify killing, but at the same time 2,000 in the context of 1 million is something different. And yes those 1 million included women and children as well.
This was not peaceful treatment:
> Torture of slaves was routine; they were whipped, burned, buried alive, restrained and allowed to be bitten by swarms of insects, mutilated, raped, and had limbs amputated.
The life expectancy of an enslaved person was 3 years. Yes that level of absurd. It's almost unfathomable.
And during that same war Napoleon's armies were also committing massacres - and the thing that stopped them from elevating to genocide was that they kept losing battles/territory. Ie one army succeeded at what the other failed at.
What happened in Haiti and the major powers treatment of the colony was disgusting and severely understudied/unknown by most people.