ten laws of the white supremacy for all to see, their heads were cut off and exposed on stakes". (Fick at 83). This was the result of the decree from the National Assembly, which had left to the white colonists "the merit and option of exercising an act of generosity toward mulattoes and free blacks. . ." (Fick at 84). As martyrs deaths always do Og's death lead to France's National Assembly to adopt another decree giving rights to blacks born of white parents. However hidden in this decree was a silent agreement to continue slavery, because it gave rights to only the few hundred blacks who had attained their free status. The domestic slaves acting as spies, by learning the plans and news from France for the benefit of the marooned or slaves who escaped to the jungle and who continued to meet and conspire, was the beginning of the black revolution which was only seen by the white man when their plantations burned to ashes.Saint Domingue broke into open rebellion on August 22, 1791, when the plantations began to burn almost at the same time. At Bois-Caiman a jungle section a giant physically and as a leader Boukman Dutty, invoking his voodoo god inspired the blacks to shut their ears and eyes to the white god who was responsible for the atrocities of the black man. "[O]ur god asks only good works of us. But this god who is so good orders revenge! He will direct our hands; he will aid us. Throw away the image of the god of the whites who thirsts for our tears and listen to the voice of liberty which speaks in the hearts of all of us." (Fick 93). The call of revolution was climaxed by the killing of a pig and the drinking of its blood. Boukman led the burnings. The north province saw every plantation burn systematically and the number of the revolting slave blacks swelling. At first the blacks attacked without weapons. Soon they gained the weapons of the white men whom they massacred and also purchased more arms and ammunition f...
