Raynal’s prophetic vengeance vision proved far more complex in practice

Evidence

But the task of avenging—and burying—the past turned out to be infinitely more complicated than Raynal had predicted: not an affair of torrents of blood and dancing skeletons, but one of the intricacies of power and politics. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 706

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• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how did Louverture’s actual methods of power and politics diverge from the apocalyptic abolitionist script Raynal imagined?