Jean Jaques Dessalines. He’s got a statue down there. An actual guy who did atrocities. Toussaint L’Overture sincerely did want a new state with Republican values which is why he chose the blue and red flag, the commune of Paris. He had a correspondence with Washington and Adams and believed in republican values. He wanted a state that was both white and black but free from the old order. But Napoleon threw him in jail in France after he surrendered under a false agreement.
Dessalines would take over and make himself emperor. Kill all white Haitians and when the genocide was complete he offered a general amnesty for all those who went into hiding in the mountains. When they emerged, he killed them too. He then proceeded to invade Santo Domingo (Dominicans.) However, once Haiti was free of its white working and craftsman class he found there were no tradesmen in the nation and all the rich plantation owners fled. How was he going to pay for the invasion? Dessalines implemented a forced labor program to get the plantation economy up and running again. If your village or town didn’t comply, he’d pay you a visit.
Vs our statutes get torn down because they owned slaves when everyone in the new world, French Spanish, and British did. I guess you can can commit actual crimes against humanity and not be Hitler if you’re on the right side of the color line. I’m tired of the moralizing about white people. Haitis history is proof we all have the same demons. Whites were just lucky they got a head start due to some circumstances that were out of their control.
