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Not really a genocide as such. The people were not being massacred because they were European, they were being massacred because they were slavers. That doesn't
by upofadown 4y ago
Not really a genocide as such. The people were not being massacred because they were European, they were being massacred because they were slavers. That doesn't even strike me as particularly unjust, particularly for an era where serious crimes resulted in capital punishment. Slavery steals lives too and in a more horrific way than straight up murder.
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- Paradigma11 4y agoFrom what i remember reading up on it last time many of those massacred fought on the side of the slaves for an independent haiti.
- deepdriver 4y agoI also remembered that quote from the Wiki page, but it seems there's controversy over the source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:1804_Haiti_massacre#Sympathetic_whites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:1804_Haiti_massacre#Sympa... I don't know if I agree with the editor's rationale for removal, but they list the source book's title if you're interested to dig deeper.
- legalcorrection 4y agoWrong. They killed every white person they could possibly find.
- Apocryphon 4y agoYou forgot Poland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Haitians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Haitians