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The 1804 Haiti massacre was a genocidal massacre carried out against the remaining white population of ''French Creoles'' (or ''Franco-Haitians'') in Haiti by the black population on the order of Jean-Jacques Dessalines who had decreed that all those suspected of conspiring in the acts of the expelled army should be put to death. The massacre, which took place in the entire territory of Haiti, was carried out from early February 1804 until 22 April 1804, and resulted in the deaths of between 3,000 to 5,000 people of all ages and genders. Squads of soldiers moved from house to house, torturing and killing entire families. Even whites who had been friendly and sympathetic to the black population were imprisoned and later killed. A second wave of massacres targeted white women and children.〔 == Background == The French colony of Saint-Domingue, known as the "Pearl of the Antilles", was one of the richest colonies in the world. Enormous wealth was extracted through the implementation of a harsh system of slavery: Henri Christophe's personal secretary was a slave for much of his life, and said the following of the treatment of slaves in Saint-Domingue: Have they not hung up men with heads downward, drowned them in sacks, crucified them on planks, buried them alive, crushed them in mortars? Have they not forced them to consume faeces? And, having flayed them with the lash, have they not cast them alive to be devoured by worms, or onto anthills, or lashed them to stakes in the swamp to be devoured by mosquitoes? Have they not thrown them into boiling cauldrons of cane syrup? Have they not put men and women inside barrels studded with spikes and rolled them down mountainsides into the abyss? Have they not consigned these miserable blacks to man eating-dogs until the latter, sated by human flesh, left the mangled victims to be finished off with bayonet and poniard? These stories were most likely influenced by the terror of Charles Leclerc in the 1801–1803 war. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1804 Haiti massacre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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