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[BEST OF] The Haitian Revolution

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The Cruel Treatment of African Slave Owners

France feninan in wretched of the earth helps us understand this rising of of a sort of class hierarchy but race comes first. The horrors cannot be overstated and it is worth pointing out some of the things that happened before and during the Haitian revolution. There's crucifixions there was putting people black people on stocks of sugarcane and setting them against fire which were highly inflamable. One particularly cruel treatment of burying slaves who had been punished for whatever reason up to their neck in dirt and letting insects slowly chew away at their face while they're still alive so the most horrific brutalities and cruelties you can imagine were inflicted on a daily basis.

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