The whites
resisted the government decrees and uprisings began. The first of
these was a revolt of the mulattoes under Oge, which was quickly
suppressed. Oge fled to Spanish Santo Domingo, but was surrendered by
the Spaniards on condition that his life be spared, a promise that was
not kept for he was publicly broken on the wheel. Jean Francois,
another mulatto, then raised an insurrection of the negroes in the
north, marching on Cape Francais, burning and murdering, with the body
of a white infant carried on a spear-head at the head of his troops.
His forces were defeated by the whites, who commenced an
indiscriminate slaughter of their victims. The negroes thereupon rose
in every direction and the paradise of the West Indies became a hell.
The great plantation houses were burned, the wide estates desolated,
white women were ravished and murdered and white men put to death with
horrible tortures, while the liberated slaves indulged in orgies at
which the beverage was rum mixed with human blood. It was a fearful
day of reckoning.
In 1793, France went to war with England and Spain.
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