Louisiana compensated slaveholders for each executed rebel, not the enslaved.

Evidence

On January 10, 1811, the poorly armed band of freed people was defeated by a well-armed band of four hundred militiamen and sixty US army troops. In the end, almost one hundred former captives were killed or executed. Louisiana provided reparations for the planters—300 (about 4,200 in 2014) for each captive killed. Authorities whacked off their heads and strung them up for all to see at intervals from New Orleans to Andry’s plantation. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 373

Categorization

• CANDY: ‘Reparations for the planters’ — $300 per dead captive — is a sharp, quotable irony: the state paid reparations to the enslavers for each killed rebel. Great elevator-conversation material.
• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to the sacrifice article — state-compensated violence turned the enslaved rebels’ bodies into a ledger reconcilable in cash, the antithesis of meaningful sacrifice.