The August 1791 uprising opened with ritualized targeted killing at the plantation refinery

Evidence

On one plantation, “twelve or fourteen of the ringleaders, about the middle of the night, proceeded to the refinery,” where they seized “the refiner’s apprentice, dragged him to the front of the dwellinghouse, and there hewed him into pieces with their cutlasses: his screams brought out the overseer, whom they instantly shot. The rebels now found their way to the apartment of the refiner, and massacred him in his bed.” — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 318

Categorization

• CANDY: The specific targeting — apprentice dragged out and hewn, overseer shot on arrival, refiner massacred in bed — is vivid incident detail.
• STORYSTEM: The precision-targeted killing of refinery staff (the production apparatus’s key technicians) suggests insurgents understood exactly which whites had made their lives unbearable — good seed for fiction about retributive precision.