This is some of what had preceded this , on the Haitian side, in 1791
From The Black Jocobin.CLR James. p 87. in the thick forests of Morne Rouge, a mountian overlooking Le Cap.
There Boukman gave the last instructions and, after Voodoo incantations and the sucking of the blood of a stuck pig, he stimulated his followers by a prayer spoken in creole, which like so much spoken on such occasions, has remained. "The god who created the sun which gives us light, who rouses the waves and rules the storm, though hidden in the clouds, he watches us. He sees all that the white man does. The god of the white man inspires him with crime, but our god calls upon us to do good works. Our god who is good to us orders us to revenge our wrongs. He will direct our arms and aid us. Throw away the symbol of the god of the whites who has so ofen caused us to weep, and listen the voice of liberty, which speaks in the hearts of us all,"
The symbol of the god of the whites was the cross which, as Catholics, they wore round their necks.
That very night they began. The salves on the Galiifet palntation were so well treted that "happy as the Negroes of Gallifet waas a slave proberb. Yet By a penemonenon noticed in all revolutions it was they who led the way. Each of the slave gang murded its masters and burtnt the plantaions to the ground..... From Le Cap the whole horizon was a whall of fire,
The slaves destroyed tirelssly,,, They were seeking their salvation in the most obious week, the destrution ow what they knew was the cause of their suffering and if they destroyed much it was because they had sufferd much. They knew that as long as these plantations stood they lot would be to labour on them until they droppped... They whose women had undergone coultless violeations, violted all the women who fell into their hands, often on the bodies of their still bleeding husbands, fathers and brothers, "Vengance! Vengance!" was their war cry, and one of them carried a white child on a pike as a standard.
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Now assuming that there were traders back and froth, can it not be assumed that the planters of Santiago had heard what had happened on the other side? back in 1791? After they could not pay the ransom demanded..would they not have expected attack? Well, no, i guess not. Bit compared to what the former slaves meted out to the women on the french side, the Donas and children were given a swift release here..
From The Black Jocobin.CLR James. p 87. in the thick forests of Morne Rouge, a mountian overlooking Le Cap.
There Boukman gave the last instructions and, after Voodoo incantations and the sucking of the blood of a stuck pig, he stimulated his followers by a prayer spoken in creole, which like so much spoken on such occasions, has remained. "The god who created the sun which gives us light, who rouses the waves and rules the storm, though hidden in the clouds, he watches us. He sees all that the white man does. The god of the white man inspires him with crime, but our god calls upon us to do good works. Our god who is good to us orders us to revenge our wrongs. He will direct our arms and aid us. Throw away the symbol of the god of the whites who has so ofen caused us to weep, and listen the voice of liberty, which speaks in the hearts of us all,"
The symbol of the god of the whites was the cross which, as Catholics, they wore round their necks.
That very night they began. The salves on the Galiifet palntation were so well treted that "happy as the Negroes of Gallifet waas a slave proberb. Yet By a penemonenon noticed in all revolutions it was they who led the way. Each of the slave gang murded its masters and burtnt the plantaions to the ground..... From Le Cap the whole horizon was a whall of fire,
The slaves destroyed tirelssly,,, They were seeking their salvation in the most obious week, the destrution ow what they knew was the cause of their suffering and if they destroyed much it was because they had sufferd much. They knew that as long as these plantations stood they lot would be to labour on them until they droppped... They whose women had undergone coultless violeations, violted all the women who fell into their hands, often on the bodies of their still bleeding husbands, fathers and brothers, "Vengance! Vengance!" was their war cry, and one of them carried a white child on a pike as a standard.
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Now assuming that there were traders back and froth, can it not be assumed that the planters of Santiago had heard what had happened on the other side? back in 1791? After they could not pay the ransom demanded..would they not have expected attack? Well, no, i guess not. Bit compared to what the former slaves meted out to the women on the french side, the Donas and children were given a swift release here..
