To be clear, this was a horrible event - but frequently like here it leaves out any other events during the period.

Killing 2000 whites at once is horrible. It came the end of a fight for independence / freedom from slavery that had been killing on average 10,000 blacks per year for 100 years. Over 1 million blacks died in Haiti during slavery.

Killing does not justify killing, but at the same time 2,000 in the context of 1 million is something different. And yes those 1 million included women and children as well.

This was not peaceful treatment:

> Torture of slaves was routine; they were whipped, burned, buried alive, restrained and allowed to be bitten by swarms of insects, mutilated, raped, and had limbs amputated.

The life expectancy of an enslaved person was 3 years. Yes that level of absurd. It's almost unfathomable.

And during that same war Napoleon's armies were also committing massacres - and the thing that stopped them from elevating to genocide was that they kept losing battles/territory. Ie one army succeeded at what the other failed at.

What happened in Haiti and the major powers treatment of the colony was disgusting and severely understudied/unknown by most people.