The Effects of Negro Emancipation in the Caribbean

The violence against Whites following the end of apartheid in South Africa is nothing new. By the mid-Nineteenth Century, the Jacobin doctrines of the French Revolution had generated no less than eighty Negro uprisings in the Caribbean alone. For example, when agitation began in the Constituent Assembly in 1791 for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies, an Abolitionist by the name of Jacques Brissot, leader of The Society of Friends of Blacks, instigated the slaves of St. Domingo to organize an insurrection. They responded on the 31st of October, by raping, torturing, and slaughtering Whites by the thousands:

"In an instant twelve hundred coffee and two hundred sugar plantations were in flames: the buildings, the machinery, the farm offices, reduced to ashes; the unfortunate proprietors hunted down, murdered or thrown into the flames by infuriated negroes. The horrors of a servile war universally appeared. The unchained African signalized his ingenuity by the discovering of new and unheard-of modes of torture. An unhappy planter was sawed asunder between two boards; the horrors inflicted on the women exceeded anything known even in the annals of Christian ferocity. Upon the indulgent master young and old, rich and poor, the wrongs of an oppressed race were indiscriminately wreaked. Crowds of slaves traversed the country with the heads of white children affixed on their pikes; they served as the standards of these furious assemblages. In a few instances only, the humanity of the negro character resisted the savage contagion of the time; and some faithful slaves, at the hazard of their own lives, fed in caves their masters or their children, whom they had rescued from destruction" (Archibald Allison, The History of Europe From the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons [London: Eilliam Blackwood, 1848], Volume I, pages 120-121).

The worst of these insurrections had occurred when Napoleon issued a proclamation in 1801 emancipating the slaves throughout Haiti, and declaring them to be "all alike free and equal before God and the Republic." A British naval officer, who witnessed the ensuing uprising, described what the Blacks did to their former masters: "Some they shot having tied them from fifteen to twenty together. Some they pricked to death with their bayonets, and others they tortured in such a manner too horrid to describe." Napoleon sent in 45,000 troops to restore order, but in the end, 20,000 Whites had been massacred by rampaging Blacks (Reference: Robert Heinl and Nancy Heinl, Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People, 1492-1971 [Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978], pages 125-130).

Will White Americans be next -- or, is it already happening?

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