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1788

1788: Nicolas Lejeune is acquitted of torturing and killing enslaved people, showing lega

1788: Nicolas Lejeune is acquitted of torturing and killing enslaved people, showing legal limits. The failure of the state to prosecute this brutal enslaver underscored the systemic power of the enslavers.

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