Comments by "rejvaik" (@rejvaik00) on "Toussaint L’Ouverture: the Black Napoleon who Freed Haiti’s Slaves" video.

  1. "Freed" is pretty subjective here as many of the slaves were once again forced to work the dangerous and deadly sugar factories albiet at a meagre wage supplied to them, and because of this they heavily resented Louverture for it. Also in the aftermath of becoming an independent state in 1804 the Hatian government under the orders from Jean-Jacques Dessalines committed genocide by killing all of the white French Creoles on the island every man, woman, and child. Only sparing women who agreed to forced marriage to non white men. The killings were applied even to the Creoles who fought with them against the French and were overall sympathetic. He was quoted as saying, "For our declaration of independence, we should have the skin of a white man for parchment, his skull for an inkwell, his blood for ink, and a bayonet for a pen"
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