I’m just going to throw this out there. Is there a chance the Haitian revolutions bloodiness could have delayed reform in the United States? Many founding fathers believed slavery would end in their lifetime. Anyone besides me think the genocide disturbed the southern non slaver Whites so much it ensured what was a terrible practice into the 1860s? Share cropper Billy Bob was probably only anti abolition cos he liked having his head attached.
Yes there was more than that. Long post incoming, but there is a lot on this subject that many people do not know.
The United States could have intervened and saved the lives of the French settlers there but chose not to so that French influence would evaporate from the Caribbean. It can be broken down into several historical decisions made by Washington, specifically then, the president George Washington. The colonies had trade interests on Hispaniola / Saint-Domingue (what is now known as Haiti) in sugar and coffee. The official policy was to remain in trade only and not support either the French or the revolting slaves in the long run, but initially Washington supported the French settlers and gave them payments, arms, and supplies over a two-year period to help them figure things out. Jefferson as well wanted to maintain the order down there and keep it as a French colony. This didn't work out.
As William Pierce describes in that video, the laissez-faire French attitude began to corrupt the social life and order on Saint-Domingue. While secularists and jacobins were beheading Christians in France, voodoo negroes were running them through with cutlasses and tearing them apart in ways beneath our conception of barbarism. Washington would not support the slaves even when they had the upper hand not just because of the southern states at that time having many plantations which he feared a spread of this rebellion (which was just Georgia and South Carolina, as Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas were not American states yet and much of their territory still belonged to the French and Spanish. and some areas still to England as well), but because he knew of some very disastrous racial realities.
George was very prescient. he believed that emancipation in the South if not accompanied by the deportation of the negroes would lead to a race war
“which will probably never end but in the extermination of one or the other race.” He expected that a Haitian victory would lead to the
“total expulsion of the whites” from Saint Domingue, and he was right.
However, when George left office, the next president, John Adams, and his policies, ultimately sealed the eventual fate of the struggling French colonists. John Adams was a Federalist, and he viewed France’s revolutionary government with suspicion and saw the French Republic as a destabilizing force in Europe. He feared the influence of revolutionary France in the Western Hemisphere. During this time, the U.S. became involved in the Quasi-War with France (1798-1800), a naval conflict in the Caribbean. As a result, Adams saw the black leaders of the Haitian Revolution, particularly Toussaint Louverture, as potential allies against French influence in the region.
Adams’ administration secretly supported Louverture, who had become the dominant leader of the revolution. They provided his cause arms, supplies, and naval support. The U.S. navy helped intercept French ships and protect American trade with the parts of the island controlled by Louverture. Adams even opened diplomatic channels with Louverture's government. Adams believed that backing Louverture could weaken French power in the Caribbean and help maintain U.S. economic interests in the region. Louverture was not in charge when the big genocide happened, he was imprisoned by Napoleon's generals when they came to retake the island.
During Jeffersons presidency is when things climaxed. The British and Napoleon are also to blame as well. In Louverture's absence, another black named Jean-jacques Dessalines, the butcher, took over leadership of the revolution. Jefferson sought to isolate Saint-Domingue, to keep all of its problems away from America. Yes he was a slaveholder himself and he wanted none of this upsetting of the order to reach the southern states. The only problem with Jefferson is that he imposed all of this after Dessalines declared independence in 1804, which is the year when all the French were massacred, down to the last woman and child.
Napoleon had attempted to re-establish French control over Haiti and reinstate slavery, but this led to renewed violent conflict. His troops were limited and many died from various fevers whilst pushing back the slaves apparently. The British navy controlled the seas and imposed a blockade on the French forces in the Caribbean, making it difficult for the French to resupply and reinforce their troop on the island. The British blockade also effectively cut off French communication with the home country, isolating the expedition forces and making it difficult for them to coordinate or send for additional support. As the revolution escalated in brutality, French forces fought on led by General Charles Leclerc, until he died from yellow fever in 1802 where it was then taken over by Rochambeau, who used extreme violence and mass executions to try to crush the rebellion. Rochambeau had served in the American Revolutionary war, he was heavy-handed and would have got the job done but the exterior circumstances cut off his aid.
The escalation of the Napoleonic Wars with Britain, Austria, and Russia demanded Napoleon and his generals attention and resources, and this forced him to focus on these more pressing concerns in Europe. As a result Napoleon neglected the situation in Saint-Domingue allowing it to spiral out of control, he decided to cut his losses in the Caribbean and this lead to the abandonment of the French campaign.
Another aspect which is overlooked is the divide between the eastern part of Hispaniola then called Spanish Santo Domingo, now called Dominican Republic. They held their half of the island with a much smaller population of Whites and mulattoes. Whereas in Haiti the mulatto population held a unique social position before the revolution. Although they were not treated as equals to the White colonists, they were often wealthier and enjoyed more privileges than the enslaved black population. Many mulattoes were landowners, slaveholders, and involved in colonial trade, which made them a distinct class in society and separate from the pure blacks. The Haitian social structure was sharply divided along racial and class lines, with White French colonists at the top, mulattoes (also known as gens de couleur libres or "free people of color") in the middle, and black slaves at the bottom. This did not stop the slaughter of mulattoes from the blacks in 1804 either. The problems between Haiti and Dominican Republic stem from a civil war, a takeover, a war of independence, and a constant fighting between the voodoo of the Haitians and the Catholicism of the Dominicans, to this very day.
Andre Rigaud, a mulatto leader, had fought for control of southern Haiti and had engaged in a civil war against Louverture in what became known as the "War of the Knives" (1799-1800). Rigaud's faction, largely supported by the mulatto population, represented the interests of the mulatto "elite." Louverture’s victory over Rigaud and the suppression of the mulatto forces worsened relations between the black and mulatto factions. Dessalines believed that complete racial unity under black leadership was necessary to secure Haiti’s independence and prevent future French attempts to reassert control. Interestingly enough, his vision worked but ultimately failed because of the genetic potential of its people. They were not the best of Africa, they were the descendants of conquered tribes by more superior tribes, and therefore in the absence of civilization, even the ruins of the one they "inherited," their descent into utter, fetid squalor, and eternal anthropophagy, was the utmost expression of their genetic potential in an isolated state surrounded by European powers.
Dessalines immediate rule after his "victory" was marked by a long series of economic woes because most of the plantations had been destroyed and they had no working farms now that all the Whites were dead. The former plantation system, which had been the backbone of the economy, had largely collapsed, and the new "government" could not find an economic model that would sustain the population. Dessalines attempted to reinstate a forced labor system to get the economy moving again, but this led to widespread dissatisfaction among both the black and remaining mixed-race populations. Dessalines was assassinated in 1806 by a group of conspirators that included both black and mulatto leaders like Henri Christophe and Alexandre Pétion who had grown dissatisfied with his rule. Just like their liberal psychopathic counterparts in revolutionary France, they in turn offed one another and this process has continued into the present day.
I don't think Jefferson was as far-seeing as Washington was, and he wouldn't realize that the descendants of these slaves would be terrorizing White Americans a little over 200 years from the time of the French genocide. He at least did not acknowledge Haiti's independence and kept the trade embargo with them which prevented them from profiting from their butchery. As to your original question, did the genocide of the French keep slavery alive? It's difficult to tell, but it certainly delayed reform, which is why Lincoln's repatriation idea seemed to coincide with emancipation, what many people realize is that there would have been no emancipation without the pretense of forced repatriation. Nat Turner's failed rebellion, a slave uprising in Virginia that resulted in the deaths of white citizens, further entrenched the violence of blacks in the minds of 19th century Whites.
The issue is really not one of abolition versus slavery, but the fact that the jews dumped their chattel onto the colonies and created a false paradigm for Whites to divide themselves over. In retrospect that is the historical error that can only be rectified from this point on with the complete advocacy of parallel societies. The entirety of the black populations do not belong with the Whites, and that is why the only thing that matters is separation, segregation, and "repatriation" to Africa, or places far away from White civilization. The liberal whites who protest this are not needed in a White nation and they can remain and die out with their blacks. They should have no say over Whites who choose to live away from them, and very soon, none of their Frankfurt Morgenthau Kalergi rhetoric will have any weight or authority.
