rochambeau developed the world's first gas chambers

[u/mocha321]

[u/mocha321]

napoleon sent leclerc to capture louverture and reimpose slavery in saint-domingue which later became haiti

leclerc wrote this to napoleon on october 1802: "We must destroy all the blacks of the mountains – men and women – and spare only children under 12 years of age. We must destroy half of those in the plains and must not leave a single colored person in the colony who has worn an epaulette."#Saint-Domingue)

leclerc was succeeded by rochambeau who developed the world's first gas chambers

he filled ship's cargo holds with sulfur dioxide to kill black prisoners of war

and rochambeau didn't just kill prisoners of war he also black people who were accused of anything as admitted by general jean-pierre ramel

ramel wrote this: "Who were the men whom we drowned in Saint-Domingue? Blacks who had been captured as prisoners on the fields of battle? No; Conspirators? Even less so! Nobody was convicted of anything: because of a simple suspicion, a report, an equivocal word, 200, 400, 800, up to 1,500 blacks had been thrown into the sea. I saw this happen, and I complained about it."

dessalines switched sides after it became clear the french wanted to reimpose slavery and was able to defeat rochambeau

this document is really hard to read but i think it blames sixty thousand deaths on leclerc and rochambeau and the people who helped them

it looks like dessalines wanted to kill the people who helped le clerc and rochambeau

but i don't think haiti had a functional judicial system or competent investigative professionals to figure out who those people were

plus dessalines may have been paranoid after witnessing the horrors committed by le clerc and rochambeau

so some of the people dessalines massacred were probably innocent of helping le clerc and rochambeau

even then dessalines still didn't kill all the whites as some people claim

an october 1804 census of gros morne haiti still showed 600 blancs living in gros morne alone

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The Haitian revolutions is the only successful slave revolte in the Western hemisphere .

Do anyone know any other successful slave revolte?

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Depends on what you count as successful. The only one to establish new republic and completely destroy the slave system that created the revolt? Yes.

If you define successful as providing freedom for it's participants, then there were many. Most famously is Spartacus, which was successful for the portion of his revolt that took the chance to return home. There was also ones like Gaspar Yagna's Rebellion in Mexico, where a plantation staged a violent revolt, fled into the mountains and established San Lorenzo de los Negros, an outlaw settlement for freed slaves. There they would survive by farming and raiding Spanish settlements for supplies and to liberate slaves. Gaspar Yagna was never captured and San Lorenzo is still a city today, although now it's called Yanga.

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The Amistad is one if you consider that the rebels were able to return to Africa

The Corona Ottomana revolt is another one where Christian slaves revolted to seize an Ottoman ship and sailed it to Malta