Colonial troops massacred noncombatant camp residents and called it victory
Evidence
Several hundred residents in the camp, “mostly women, children, the aged and the sick,” stayed behind, as had been the case at Gallifet in late 1791. They were too tired or weak to run, and perhaps ready to go back to the plantations. They weren’t given the chance. The attacking troops massacred everyone they found at Platons and destroyed the insurgent town. The attack was celebrated as a “tremendous victory.” — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 512
Categorization
- XREF: The massacre of women, children, aged and sick in insurgent camps echoes the pattern at Gallifet in 1791 noted in the same passage, and anticipates the genocidal dynamics of later phases including the wars of independence. — connects to: Residents who challenged the colonial hierarchy were destroyed by it — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1259; Mutineers who chose to leave the camp were fired upon and slaughtered; White colonial authorities responded to the slave revolt with mass executions and terror — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 327 (+5 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Residents who challenged the colonial hierarchy were destroyed by it — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1259; Mutineers who chose to leave the camp were fired upon and slaughtered; White colonial authorities responded to the slave revolt with mass executions and terror — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 327 (+5 more)