History of the Revolution of Saint-Domingue, pg. 89

This chapter is an account, written by Antoine Dalmas, of the slave revolt in Saint-Domingue. In 1791 the slave revolt broke out. Dalmas described the plan for the revolt as a 'conspiracy'. According to the account, one of the conspiracy planners said that they were planning the revolt as revenge and that it was necessary that they kill all the whites on their plantations because the plot was too big to allow for refuge for the whites. The night before the revolt, the blacks reportedly carried out a ceremony where they drank blood and offered a pig as a sacrifice to the all-powerful spirit of the black race. "It is natural that a caste this ignorant and stupid would begin the most horrible attacks with the superstitious rites of an absurd and bloodthirsty religion." (I find this statement curious because of the fact that in the Old Testament of the Bible animal sacrifices were common). They revolt was bloody and violent as the slaves travelled around to plantations burning fields and killing their white oppressors. This occurred in 1791, just as the French Revolution was taking place. The French were going around France violently revolting, killing and burning down their oppressors, and surely they Slaves were inspired by them.