13563: Lyall re: Dessalines and the Belairs (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: J.David <his_voidness@yahoo.com>

First, discussions of so called 'war crimes' by
Jean Jacques D. The Big D.

Then, who is mentioned but Sanite Belair. Executed along
with Charles Belair for fighting against Rochambeau and LeClerc.

Who executed them? Well, wasn't it Papa Dessalines who killed them?
Didn't Dessalines wait until most of the prominent black generals
were defeated and dead before he turned against the genocidaires?

THat is what CLR James says in Black Jacobins, as I recall.

>  For, the so-called war crimes that Papa
> Dessalines is
> accused of are no transgressions at all in the face of what was being
> done
> to his people.

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>
> As for the question about women in the revolution, I know of two
> website
> where you can find some relevant info in French .
>
> http://www.haitiwebs.com/femmes/
> http://www.windowsonhaiti.com/windowsonhaiti/docs-h.html
>
> I am particularly fascinated by Sanite Bélair who was reportedly a
> sergeant
> in the revolutionary army. Her heroic insistence that she be executed
> like a
> soldier, along side her husband is amazing.