1802 (The Distinction Between Europeans and Colonists): In his reflections on the war in 1802, King Henry Christophe makes a strategic distinction between th…

1802 (The Distinction Between Europeans and Colonists): In his reflections on the war in 1802, King Henry Christophe makes a strategic distinction between the general people of Europe and the “enemies of the human race” known as the colonists. He states that he does not impute the “dreadful evils” endured by Hayti to all Europeans, who likely had no true idea of the horrors of the colonial system. Instead, King Chrsitophe’s manifesto blames the “thirst of riches and vengeance” that inflamed the colonists for dragging French soldiers into a destructive climate to act as their tools. The King questions what interest the French people could have had in burying their youth in Hayti to attack a nation that had been “proud of its subjection” to them. This rhetorical move was intended to appeal to the moral conscience of European nations while isolating the former slaveholders.