Dessalines has the whites of the island killed

The Fossette was the principal theater, at the Cap, of the slaughter of the whites in 1804. It is known that, from 1 February to 22 April 1804, Dessalines had every white in the island butchered. After that, he said: “I can die now, I have avenged the Indian tribes and the Africans extinguished in servitude. Haiti has become a land red with blood that the Frenchman will henceforth flee.” Yet the white women were still alive. While their husbands were being massacred, no one had thought of shedding their blood. Some people, great tricksters and great thieves by trade, insinuated themselves with the Governor General by their flatteries, became his counselors, and skillfully urged him to sacrifice the white women, saying that they loathed the Haitians, that they would bring up their children in French ideas, and that before twenty years a new generation of traitors would reappear. Dessalines, yielding to their suggestions, published the edict of massacre, which was general. At the Cap, Christophe, named commander of the department after the evacuation of the French, had these…

Rouzier tells this under the entry Fossette (la).