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I’m sure if you castrated a man and then burned a member of his family at the stake for stealing food, he’d probably revolt against you and have no qualms about
by jollofricepeas 4y ago
I’m sure if you castrated a man and then burned a member of his family at the stake for stealing food, he’d probably revolt against you and have no qualms about killing your whole family including your children.
The treatment of Haitian slaves was so bad that the King issued the Code Noir. People don’t just rise up in revolt and risk their lives for fun.
Martin Luther King Jr said it best, “A riot is the language of the unheard.” So what then is a revolt?
- morpheos137 4y agoI think the reason things were so brutal on both sides in haiti was that there were about 32 French for every 500 slaves. So in that context terror and genocide in reaction to terror make more sense. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1070615/estimated-population-haiti-1789-by-slave-status-and-race/#:~:text=In%201789%2C%20on%20the%20eve,population%20of%20556%20thousand%20people https://www.statista.com/statistics/1070615/estimated-popula.... In contrast outside the black belt and the delta regions slavery in the US was a minority thing. When you have a oppressed majority then you have a potential powder keg. Slavery was wrong regardless.
- legalcorrection 4y ago
- lotsofpulp 4y agoThere is no purpose to speculating what someone else would or would not do.
- jjfoooo4 4y agoWar is cruel. I’m not seeing anyone saying the individuals who lost their lives deserved it.