Here's what Raifi Genao have to say about the issue at hand:
11 | noviembre | 2008 | La Venda Transparente de Raifi Genao
He puts the number at 10,000. Almost the same as the ones that the gens de couleur of the western part suffered when Dessalines "pacified" the southern region, after the war against Rigaud.
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The only source quoted is Arrandodo y Picardo
Jean - Jacques Dessalines was born on September 20, 1758 in Guinea , Africa. Little is known of his youth until he appears as a slave in the French colony of Santo Domingo , this marked him forever and dragged a permanent hatred against whites by the abuses and humiliations , free and took the name of his master , who fled in 1789.
At the outbreak of the slave revolt in Saint - Domingue , Toussaint joined and organized a gang of slaves who supported France and contributed to the expulsion of the British. Dessalines fought alongside the French army against Toussaint but in 1802 , after his detention and deportation to France and to the weakness of the French army in addition to the danger of a return to slavery , becomes revolutionary rebel leader .
Definitely Dessalines defeated the French army at the Battle of Vertieres in 1803. The first of January 1804 Jean - Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haiti's independence in Gonaives and became governor general and soon after the name Emperor Jacques I. He ordered the death of all white people , except religious and medical , prohibiting further that these properties have . Reorganized the land , distributing small estates among the peasants . In his government tried to restore Dessalines plantation economy through a system of forced labor.
In January 1805 the remnants of the French army left in the eastern part of the island commanded by the French General Louis Marie Ferrand come back in action . Ferrand ordered his troops to hunt children of both sexes black until 14 years of age to be sold as slaves. This causes the wrath of Dessalines who invaded the eastern part of the island and then raze some villages as Moca Azua and besieges the city of Santo Domingo on March 5, 1805 .
**************************THE MOCA AND SANTIAGO DEGUELLE
In the dramatic story " Memory of my departure from the island of Santo Domingo on April 28, 1805 " , the Dominican Gaspar de Arredondo jurist and Pichardo , it is revealed that forty ( 40 ) children were slaughtered in the church of Moca, and the bodies were found in the sanctuary, which is the space around the altar in the churches. This tragedy , unparalleled in the history of the island, was part of the genocide that killed thousands of Dominicans , many of them beheaded and decapitated . This catastrophe , also unprecedented in our history, was executed by the troops of General Henri Christophe Haitian ( Henry Christopher ), who followed orders and led the hosts of Jean Jacques Dessalines retreating from the Spanish part of the island during his abortive invasion that bloody 1805 .
Interested in this commentary highlight particularly the tragedy involving Dominican children brutally slaughtered or abducted, imprisoned and driven on foot to Haiti. The slaughter of 40 children in Moca is documented in the story of Gaspar de Arredondo and Pichardo1 . At work that is inserted into these same edition Alejandro Filled includes this paragraph in addition to terrifying and inexplicable is a very creepy episode :
On April 6, Christopher gathered his troops in Santiago , beheaded in the cemetery male prisoners , among whom were the Priest Vasquez and 20 priests , burned the town and its 5 churches , and went out, taking as a herd 249 women , 430 girls and 318 boys, this amount , very high considering the relatively small population of these villages .
Note that in the description of the children slaughtered, only on the high altar of the church of Moca was 40 , but this fact is only narrated by the author , were beheaded on the island are uncountable , as this action by order of Dessalines was implemented in many parts of the French territory of the island and thousands.
Interestingly, the relationship women - children who were brought from Santiago for Haiti " like sheep " because while women were 249 children totaled 748 , ie three times more children than women. Women and children of prisoners and dragged James to Haiti totaled 997 people , but this group was only leading from Santiago . There were credible reports of actions identified in Moca and Santiago but tells Filled by order of Henri Christophe " Monte Plata , San Pedro and Cotu? were reduced to ashes , and its inhabitants slaughtered or taken captive as animals, bound and abused in amounts thousands into the territory of Haiti. "
That he was dragged by 900 vegans and were burned addition Santiago San Francisco de Macoris , Moca , Puerto Plata and Montecristi. It is clear that when they say they were "dragged " 900 vegans to Santiago it is indicated that number of people was conducted as prisoners and that all were on foot . So the 900 vegans driven , " drawn " , must be added that were being " dragged" from Monte Plata, San Pedro , Cotu? , San Francisco and Moca, and those who were taken prisoner in Puerto Plata and Montecristi , and also " dragged" walk toward the distant territory of Haiti.
If in each of these communities acted as in Santiago, where men were slain and taken prisoners "dragged " women and children , it is reasonable to estimate that women and children " dragged" there were thousands . And as many prisoners beheaded would add a huge amount considering that in many cases, exceeded beheaded walk taken as prisoners to Haitian territory ...
All this is an immeasurable tragedy before which , in connection with this work, two considerations should be referred , as indicated by the first authors cited , and the second would explain the emphasis , the particular interest in the slaughter and driving children as prisoners , " dragged" with thirst and hunger walk for Haiti .
The first consideration is referred to the fact that Dessalines must leave the place that had to Santo Domingo in 1805 , a failure of enormous dimension Haiti, equivalent to a major military defeat for the capital of the former Spanish colony , decisive importance in addition to its strategy , was occupied by the French army , which was the number one military objective Haitian army .
This adverse situation markedly antagonized Dessalines , who before leaving the site " did give the order to the commanders of the various conquered common to gather all the people and reduce them to prison , so that your first order them trampled by mules and other animals, to reach the Haitian " .
In addition , under the final instructions left several generals Dessalines before leaving the site , " they pushed before them the rest of the people , animals and beasts ... burned down towns, villages , herds and cities, brought devastation everywhere , iron and fire, and did not spare but individuals destined by S. M. to be taken as prisoners. "
This is important to note that the part of the two preceding paragraphs quoted above was extracted from the War Diary Dessalines himself , so that, part confession , relay testing , in good law according to lawyers familiar .
It should be noted that the invading army of Dessalines was constituted of more than twenty thousand soldiers , very well equipped with the best weapons of war time in Europe , who had captured the Haitian army defeated Napoleon Bonaparte in Saint - Domingue , ie , in Haiti. As we have seen , those over twenty thousand men were ordered , in their retreat , driving to Haiti as prisoners to all the Dominican people , "or the rest of them " , those who stayed alive, because men prisoners were terribly slaughtered mercilessly.
If only James were " dragged" 249 women , 430 girls and 318 boys , as revealed by Alejandro Filled , and La Vega 900 vegans , then we must infer that added the rest of the communities through which the army passed and were thousands .
Unfortunately there is no documentary evidence of this genocide in the southern region of the country , which was where he retired with a portion of his vast army Dessalines himself . There are only references in the text written by Gaspar de Arredondo and Pichardo about the horror that told fugitives on the roads and mountains Cibao arrived quickly fleeing from the South territory .
There is a second consideration I express here . Some historians hold the belief that the invasion of Dessalines was in response to a decree intemperate , characteristic of the war, Lois Ferrand French general , who was at that time governor of the colony of Santo Domingo .
In his article " Invasion of Dessalines " Filled quote Alejandro well Ferrand this decree , which was in response to a calling Dessalines proclaims the inhabitants of the Spanish part of the island to surrender. But his unusual decree of January 6, 1805 3 Ferrand authorizes the inhabitants and Spanish authorities capture the territory of the Republic of Haiti children up to 14 years old in order to sell them, as they did with blacks at all , like common slaves.
Evidently, the engine immediately Dessalines invasion was not the decree , but its content should provoke outrage in the Haitian authorities because the message of the text amounted to a proposal to restore slavery, which had evidently been overcome with the proclamation of Independence of Haitians , and which had been suppressed by the French Revolution plus previous years.
The slaughter of 40 children on the altar of the church of Moca and driving as prisoners to Haiti of 748 children in Santiago should be a clear message. These , as we have said , are data that are documented, but it had to be unique cases . In other Dominican communities in which hit the butcher known as Henri Christophe should have been produced mass beheadings of innocent children for their own direct orders. One could say without being exaggerated , killing it Dessalines and his supporters , surpassed the 10,000 executions throughout the country, a sum appalling considering the mass dependence of the time, but later the Jean - Jacques Dessalines himself was assassinated , as fate , in the same way they killed their prisoners were ordered in 1806 , his body was first beheaded and then furiously cut into pieces for his murderers . Dessalines was betrayed by his top aides Petion and Christopher who later divided the country and that he used with the same method used with the enemies .
But these actions , both Dessalines and Trujillo itself are seen from the historical and contemporary political mistakes must not be repeated ever .
*Many close friends of Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo said that he liked to hear the stories of Dominican historians about this and their views on the attitude of Dessalines , remaining always stupefied by such stories , some even claim that the decision of the killing of 1937 , was closely linked to a desired but could avenge wrong answer in part those facts, and in this way give midpoint balance inclined to hate that accentuated still early twentieth century actions Dessalines . Although very safe, these statements can hardly be tested , because Trujillo was careful not to leave written documentation on such delicate facts.
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by: Raifi Genao
