Santo Domingo Past And Present With a Glance At Hayti
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123 A. accounts of the cruelties practised by those polished whites from that most finished city, " The Paris of the West Indies. " But these deeds brought their own punishment ; for the whole black population, finding they had no mercy to expect at the hands of the whites, rose in revolt under the leader ship of Jean Francois, and Biassou, his lieutenant. Everywhere the fires of the incendiaries were lighted, and the once noble habitations were burned to the ground, while the hitherto smiling ...plains of successful agriculture be came vast wastes of desolation. To add to the strength of this uprising, the minority party of the whites is said to have encouraged the blacks ; arid the latter assumed, in their first attempts, to be fight ing the cause of the King, whom they maintained the whites had in custody at Paris. The negroes marched to Port Margot, bearing a banner on one side of which was inscribed, u Vive le Hoi, " and on the other, " Ancien Regime;" and while calling them selves " King s people, " their leader marched at their head wearing the decoration of the order of St Louis.
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