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> No, by 1804 the "Black Jacobins" were mostly deported with Toussaint L'Ouverture already dead. Except Dessalines, who was previously one of his Black Jacobin
by LegitShady 3y ago
> No, by 1804 the "Black Jacobins" were mostly deported with Toussaint L'Ouverture already dead.
Except Dessalines, who was previously one of his Black Jacobin generals, but then turned on him, then rejoined him, then turned on him once again when L'Overture declared a ceasefire with the french but then went back on it, and Dessalines went on to massacre the white population of hiati, so exactly L'Ouverture's legacy. It's just that L'Ouverture lost internal power struggles in the revolution.
- boomboomsubban 3y ago>It's just that L'Ouverture lost internal power struggles in the revolution. He lost to someone who clearly did not share his ideology, the ideology that the Jacobin took it's name from. I find much of the rest of your post strange, but it's already getting way off topic.
- LegitShady 3y agoDessalines was L'Ouverture's principle lieutenant and general. It wasn't until after the Battle of Crete-a-Pierrot, where Dessalines forces kicked the french out of fort Crete-a-Pierrot, then massacred the french civilians, and then themselves were forced out of the fort due to heavy losses on Leclerc's counterattack, that Dessalines switched alliegences. Dessalines than switched sides which led to the surrender of L'Ouverture. The massacre of french civilians there still happened under L'Ouverture. He didn't have a different ideology, he was literally L'Ouverture's primary supporter and ally, until defeated militarily.