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> they were slaves rising up to their captors And yet, nothing like this ever happened in the slave-holding U.S. South. Not during the U.S. civil war, not even
by zozbot123 8y ago
> they were slaves rising up to their captors
And yet, nothing like this ever happened in the slave-holding U.S. South. Not during the U.S. civil war, not even in the worst depths of post-war "Reconstruction" (or the lack thereof, rather - ironically, true reconstruction in the historical 'South' would only happen as late as the Civil Rights era, creating the present-day "Sun Belt"). So, clearly, ideology had at least something to do with it.
- icebraining 8y agoAre you sure that ideology was the single only difference between Haiti and the US South? In fact, the two were very different; Haiti was a slave colony far away from the mainland, unlike the Southern US. Even in Virginia, the state with the most slaves in 1800, they were never even 50% of the population. In Haiti, slaves outnumbered whites 10:1. And that mainland was turned into itself, and unable to provide decent governance or even military forces to keep them in line. The massacre came about after the Haitian revolution, when ex-slaves took control. This never happened, and could never happen, in the US.