1804 Haiti massacre
1804 · Event
Weeks after independence, Dessalines orders the killing of most of the French men, women and children remaining on the island — several thousand die. Remembered in Haiti as the settling of accounts with the planter class, and used abroad for a century as the excuse to isolate the world's first black republic.
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