Dessalines secretly undermined French disarmament while publicly carrying it out
Evidence
According to Descourtilz, Dessalines took advantage of his control of the disarmament process to undermine it, secretly returning to their owners the very weapons he confiscated publicly, and stocking up on ammunition in preparation for the time he rebelled again. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 998
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Pays off the earlier portrait of Dessalines’s ploy to trick the French into trusting him — the hidden strategy behind his brutality.
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