1804 Haitian massacre
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The 1804 Haiti massacre was a genocide carried out by Afro-Haitian soldiers, mostly former slaves, under orders from Jean-Jacques Dessalines against much of the remaining European population in Haiti,
General Jean-Jacques Dessalines holding a white woman's severed head
"Burning of the Plaine du Cap – Massacre of whites by the blacks." On August 22, 1791, slaves destroyed plantations in Le Cap, and killed all the French population in the region.
Woman killed and mutilated in the massacre with her child perishing from starvation
Polish Haitians
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Polish Haitians are Haitian people of Polish descent, dating to the early 19th century; a few may be Poles of more recent native birth that have gained Haitian citizenship, such as refugees fleeing th
1804 Haitian massacre
…happened on 1 January 1804. From February 1804 until 22 April 1804, between 3,000 and 7,000 people were killed. The massacre excluded surviving Polish Legionnaires, who had defected from the French legion to become allied with the enslaved Africans, as well as the Germans who did not take part in the slave trade…
19th-century painting by January Suchodolski of Polish troops in Saint-Domingue