Dessalines concealed from Louverture where the white prisoners really went.
Evidence
By the time Dessalines had reached the mountains, he had very few white prisoners with him. Questioned by Louverture, he claimed they had been captured by French troops, been killed in combat, or had escaped. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 962
Categorization
- QUESTION: Dubois’s subdued irony here invites asking when Louverture knew of Dessalines’ massacres and how far their methods fundamentally diverged.
- XREF: connects to: Dessalines disposed of captured whites and covered up the killings.
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Dessalines disposed of captured whites and covered up the killings.