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1712

1712: A royal ordinance forbids the torture of enslaved people with pepper or quicklime.

1712: A royal ordinance forbids the torture of enslaved people with pepper or quicklime. This law was passed because such extreme cruelty was causing the enslaved to flee into the mountains as maroons.

Source Fick, The Making of Haiti, 16; Ghachem, The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution, 136