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1788

1788: Nicolas Lejeune is acquitted of torturing and killing slaves, showing legal limits.

1788: Nicolas Lejeune is acquitted of torturing and killing slaves, showing legal limits. The failure of the state to prosecute this brutal planter underscored the systemic power of the master class.

Source Dubois, Avengers of the New World, 71; Ghachem, The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution, 215; Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 37