Jeannot Bullet

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Jeannot Bullet - Leader of the Boukman Rebellion, general of the early rebellion (taking the title "Grand Judge.") Was at Bois Caïman. Violent and sadistic, he hated whites and lusted for freedom.

"Small, thin man with a forbidding manner and a veiled crafty face. He was utterly remorseless... even towards his own kind. ... He would stop at nothing to gain his own ends, he was daring, seizing quickly on chances, quick-witted and capable of total hypocrisy. He feared no one and nothing; unfortunately he found inspiration in cruelty, a sadist without the refinements that so-called civilization brings." (Parkinson, p. 40) "He hanged those he had captured by hooks stuck under their chins. He himself put out their eyes with red-hot pincers. He cut the throat of a prisoner and lapped at the blood as it flowed, encouraging those around him to join him: "Ah, my friends, how good, how sweet is the blood of the whites. Drink it deep and swear revenge against our oppressors, never peace, never surrender, I swear by God." (Parkinson, p. 43-4)

After being condemned to death at trial for killing a white civilian in front of his children, he screamed and sobbed and begged for mercy. He didn't stop sobbing until the guns fired.

References

Parkinson, Wenda (1978). This Gilded African. London: Quartet Books. ISBN 0-7043-2187-4