Dessalines also lead an army into modern day Santo Domingo to murder French who escaped to the Spanish controlled part of the island. He prohibited whites from owning property in Haiti.
The Haitians of 200 years ago would be very depressed to see the resulting “Life Without White People”. When the earthquake sent them back to the Stone Age eight years ago, they were hoping ships filled with white tourists would stop and care for them (they didn’t); maybe the tourists heard of this character and didn’t want to get boiled in a pot...