It was the annihilation of one race by the other.

The bleeding heads of the whites, carried on the tops of sugar canes, were the standards which guided these hordes, not to combat, but to carnage.

The outrages of so many centuries, committed by the whites on the blacks, were avenged in one night.

A rivalry of cruelty seemed to arise between the two colours.

The negroes imitated the tortures so long used upon them, and invented new ones.