1844-May-04
1844-May-04: The insurgent leader Acaau wrote to Commodore Sharpe to explain that the southern rising was a defense of the rights of the black masses.
1844-May-04: The insurgent leader Acaau wrote to Commodore Sharpe to explain that the southern rising was a defense of the rights of the black masses. He maintained that the rebellion was a necessary response to the “legalized assassination” of the peasantry.
Source · p. 276
Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 276