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The Haitian Revolution ended as a genocide against all whites on the island, including white abolitionists who were fighting alongside the enslaved. Several thousand French men, women and children were murdered.

Edit: The massacre happened the year after Louverture died, so that's not pertinent. I apologize. More details, including the Poles who only survived the genocide by hiding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haiti_massacre

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>Haitian Revolution, which was a genocide against all whites on the island, including white abolitionists who were fighting alongside the enslaved.

Not correct, the Polish that allied with the enslaved Haitains and fought off the French were given an honorary black card and Haitian citizenship but were still very much white.

Poland is also home to one of the oldest Black Madonna paintings which signals the strong ties between the Virgin Mary/Jesus and Egypt's Isis/Horus.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Haitians

It's also important context to note that Louverture had been in control of much of Haiti for almost a decade and no genocide took place while he was in power.

You can't remake history, but is think many would argue that Louverture release would have put him in power and prevents those events (helping other caraibean countries free themselves more easily). Louverture could have been the first black governor, proving that the first French revolution was not just words.

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