After Louverture’s capture, Leclerc died, leaving Rochambeau in charge to release his white supremacist fury on the island. And his fury knew no bounds. He decapitated any Black people not wearing a French uniform, including women and children. The “Roach” imported fifteen thousand attack dogs from Jamaica that had been trained to kill anyone who was not white. He bound and gagged captives in sacks and drowned them. Perhaps Rochambeau’s most ruthless tactic was the “fumigational-sulfurous baths.”7 He marched the prisoners of war onto French ships, where he burned stockpiles of sulfur. The
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