Caption, revenge taken by the black army for the cruelties practised on them by the French; shows a number of French soldiers being hung from gallows by black soldiers. The author was a British military officer who visited Haiti; some of the engravings in his book may have been based on his sketches.

Marcus Rainsford, An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (London, 1805), facing p. 337.

Rainsford, Marcus

English

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NW0223

Caribbean--St. Domingue

"Revenge Against French Soldiers, Saint Domingue (Haiti), 1805", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed September 26, 2023, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1263