Reports from the Insurrection, pg. 95

This chapter is journal entries describing the slave revolts on Saint Domingue. It is specific about numbers of Africans and whites killed. According to the journal, the Africans were organized; they planned to burn a city by having some slaves attack from the outside while the slaves on the inside worked to burn the city down. However, the whites barricaded the city entrances to prevent the outside part of the attack. Even during the fighting the whites could not take their minds of money; there people were dying but they were spending time estimating their losses. In journal entry 13 the whites estimate that 150 sugar-houses and 3000 negroes had been killed, which amounted to roughly 6000.000 livres. During the revolt the whites do not consider giving into the Africans demands for more rights; they are only thinking about how they can regain control of the Africans. When the Africans negotiated and said they would go back to work for more days off, the whites refused and did not consider giving into their requests for more rights. The revolt got very gruesome; the Africans left the white dead on the ground with stakes driven through them, and the whites got to the point where they took no prisoners.