In an instant twelve hundred coffee and two hundred sugar plantations were in flames ; the buildings, the machinery, the farm-houses, were reduced to ashes ; and the unfortunate proprietors were hunted down, murdered, or thrown into the flames, by the... The History of the French Revolution - Pagina 382door Adolphe Thiers - 1838Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1843 - 826 pagina’s
...flames ; the buildings, the machinery, the farm-offices, reduced to ashes; the unfortunate proprietors hunted down, murdered, or thrown into the flames by...signalized his ingenuity by the discovery of new and unheard of modes of torture. An unhappy planter was sawed asunder between two boards ; the horrors... | |
| 1843 - 778 pagina’s
...flames ; the buildings, the machinery, the farm-offices, reduced to ashes; the un fortunate proprietors hunted down, murdered, or thrown into the flames by...The unchained African signalized his ingenuity by thf discovery of new and unheard of modes of torture. An unhappy planter was sawed asunder between... | |
| Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl - 1850 - 908 pagina’s
...Domingo broke forth. In an instant twelve hundred coffee and two hundred sugar plantations were, h* flames ; the buildings, the machinery, the farm-houses,...discovery of new and unheard-of modes of torture. An unfeappy planter was sawed asunder between two boards. The horrors inflicted on the women exceeded... | |
| Charles James Fox - 1853 - 900 pagina’s
...reduced to ashes, and the unfortunate proprietors hunted down, murdered, or thrown into the names, by the infuriated negroes. The horrors of a servile...discovery of new and unheard-of modes of torture.— Thiers' French Revolution, chap, xxxiii. Alison s Historj of Europe, vol. ii. p. 307, seventh edition.... | |
| Stephen D. Carpenter - 1864 - 368 pagina’s
...flames; the buildings, tho machinery, the farm offices, reduced to ashes; the unfortunate proprietors hunted down, murdered or thrown into the flames by...ingenuity by the discovery of new and unheard-of modes ol'torture. An unhappy planter was sawed asunder between two Ixjards; the norrors inflicted on the... | |
| United States Catholic Historical Society - 1919 - 216 pagina’s
...coffee and two hundred sugar plantations were in flames; the buildings, the machinery, the farm houses were reduced to ashes, and the unfortunate proprietors...flames by the infuriated negroes. The horrors of a civil war universally appeared. * * * In 1793 it broke out with redoubled fury. Three thousand insurgents... | |
| 142 pagina’s
...an instant, " a writer said, "twelve hundred coffee and two hundred sugar plantations were inflames; the buildings, the machinery, the farmhouses, were...thrown into the flames, by the infuriated Negroes. " Day after day, week after week, for three weeks, the Haitian revolutionaries pressed their advantage,... | |
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