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1777

1777: A crowd in Le Cap kills the public executioner after a reported miraculous escape of a prisoner.

1777: A crowd in Le Cap kills the public executioner after a reported miraculous escape of a prisoner. This spontaneous act of violence reflected the underlying tensions and volatility of the urban colonial population.

Source Dubois, Avengers of the New World, 43; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 48