[Rockingham]

There were exceptions. In a bit of history that is a matter of pride to Haitians, many Polish mercenaries who were recruited by Napoleon to suppress what they were falsely told was a prison rebellion went over to the side of the Haitians and fought beside them.

As a result, those Polish soldiers were permitted to stay in Haiti and were given land to settle on. As a result, those soldiers had Haitian descendants with blue eyes, lighter skin, European features, and even blonde hair.

In addition, Poles were described in Haiti as the "white Negroes of Europe" in that they had lost their nationhood and were as a people called Slavs in that the Romans bought or captured many of their slaves there.

[packrat35]

These numbers were small enough to not really matter. The white richer nations that could have helped Haiti pulled back after the slaughter of the whites and Haiti has never recovered.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Poles are one of a number of Slavic peoples (along with Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, Ukrainians, Russians, etc.). The term "slave" comes from the ethnic (rather than vice versa) because so many Slavs were enslaved in the Middle Ages (when that region was still pagan--so the people could be enslaved). The Roman term for "slave" was servus (feminine serva).