And every month other than March is this:
Give it up for Tyrone Green and his Reggie band.
The
1804 Haiti massacre was carried out against the French population and French Creoles (or
Franco-Haitians) remaining in Haiti following the
Haitian Revolution, by soldiers, mostly former slaves, under orders from
Jean-Jacques Dessalines. He had decreed that all suspected of conspiring in the acts of the expelled army should be put to death.
[1] From early January 1804 until 22 April 1804, squads of soldiers moved from house to house throughout Haiti, torturing and killing entire families.
[2] Between 3,000 to 5,000 people were killed.
[3]
Nicholas A. Robins and
Adam Jones describe the massacre as a "genocide of the
subaltern", in which an oppressed group use
genocidal means to destroy their oppressors.
[4] Throughout the early-to-mid nineteenth century, the events of the massacre were well known in the United States. In addition, many refugees had come to the U.S. from Saint-Domingue, settling in
New Orleans,
Charleston,
New York,
Baltimore and other coastal cities. These events polarized
Southern U.S. public opinion on the question of the abolition of slavery.
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| 1804 Haiti massacre | |
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| Part of the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution | |

Engraving depicting a killing during the massacre | |
| Location | Haiti |
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| Date | January 1804 – 22 April 1804; 216 years ago |
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| Target | White French people |
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| Deaths | 3,000–5,000 |
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| Perpetrators | Army of Jean-Jacques Dessalines |
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1804 Haiti massacre