Insurgent torture of whites mirrored the tortures masters had inflicted

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Then Jeannot announced to the prisoners that two of them would be killed every twenty-four hours, “to prolong his enjoyment.” One white prisoner received “over 400” strikes of a whip, and gunpowder was rubbed into his bleeding wounds. Other prisoners, escorted out of their prison to the sound of a drum, were chopped to pieces or strung up and bled to death. One was executed by his own domestic slave. The whippings and executions described by Gros were a terrifying mirror image of the tortures long inflicted by white masters upon slaves. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 415

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• SHARE: For anyone interested in atrocity archaeology or the symmetry of colonial violence, this Jeannot passage is gripping.