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1701

1701: Père Labat records that enslaved people frequently commit suicide as economic sabotage.

1701: Père Labat records that enslaved people frequently commit suicide as economic sabotage. This extreme form of resistance was a desperate protest against the inhumane conditions of the plantation system.

Source  ·  p. 15 Fick, The Making of Haiti, 15