the Colonial Ministry in Paris issued a series of decrees in the mid-1780s calling upon plantation owners and their agents to give enslaved laborers a day off per week, provide enough food so they wouldn’t starve, and refrain from murdering them. The French population in Saint-Domingue vehemently opposed these decrees and the court in Cap-Français refused to recognize them.
I feel like the prohibition against blaming the victim can’t apply to the Haitian revolution bc the Blancs, both Grandes and Petites, truly were begging to be overthrown in the most violent way possible.
