Saint Domingue is an impending storm. The white plantation owners are living by the foothills of Vesuvius
-Guillaume Thomas Raynal
Far too long had the French lives under the oppressive monarchy, and voices of revolution were heard, resulting in the overthrow of the French monarchy. Yet the promises of equality are of little comfort to the slaves of Saint Domingue. West Africans are being kidnapped and hauled on ships in increasing numbers, especially to the French colony of Saint Domingue. Here, the slaves were treated as property, many died on the way, yet one could say death was a better fate than what they faced in Saint Domingue. Wealthy white plantation owners would force the slaves to handle dangerous machinery and do backbreaking labor on sugar plantations in the baking tropical sun. Those who died were simply replaced by more slaves being brought over on slave ships. Saint Domingue was one of the most profitable colonies of the French Empire, and losing it would strike a blow to the post-revolutionary economy. The slaves, at nighttime, would engage in voodoo rituals much like the ones they did back home. By the 1790s, almost 90% of the colony’s population was black slaves. Many had absolute hatred for their white masters and white people in general, and whites who had kids with slaves ended up creating a biracial group called mulattoes.
Then, on the night of August 21, 1791, a respected voodoo priest, Dutty Boukman, rallied together thousands of slaves and prophesied leaders such as Georges Biassou and Jeannot to lead the slaves to emancipation. A massive voodoo ceremony, known as Bois Caïman was held, weapons, from sickles to guns were distributed to the slaves, and the slaves would go back to their plantations and slaughter their owners. The French army would respond accordingly, killing many black slaves who were suspected, regardless of them being innocent or not. The angered slaves would further revolt against their white masters, securing control of the port city of Port-au-Prince and forcing the French authorities to flee to the North of the colony, holding off until reinforcements from Napoleon arrive.
Through the fighting, a charismatic, self educated former slave who had fought for both the Spanish and French armies, Toussaint L'Ouverture, would lead an organized rebel military, being feared across the slave colonies of the Western Hemisphere as his charisma could start revolutions in Spanish Hispaniola and the Southern USA among other places. Him, along with other revolutionaries would fight to free the slaves of Saint Domingue, or Ayiti as it was called by the slaves.
This is a character based RP where you will be RPing either a real or fictional leader of the Haitian Revolution, or a French military leader suppressing the revolution.
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[align=center][b]Application[/b][/align]
[b]Name of leader:[/b]
[b]Race:[/b]
[b]Appearance (pictures or descriptions are fine)[/b]
[b]Opinions on the revolution (for or against):[/b]
[b]Opinion on whites[/b]
[b]Opinion on blacks[/b]
[b]Opinion on mulattoes[/b]
[b]Short Bio[/b]
