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To be fair to the Haitians, they're probably the only group of blacks who defeated their Colonial Masters in combat and gained their independence.
200k Haitians and 150k Whites died in the 12 year war 1791-1803.
Casualties
In the early 21st century, historian Robert L. Scheina estimated that the slave rebellion resulted in the death of 350,000 Haitians and 50,000 European troops.[115] According to the Encyclopedia of African American Politics, "Between 1791 and independence in 1804 nearly 200,000 blacks died, as did thousands of mulattoes and as many as 100,000 French and British soldiers."[116] Yellow fever caused the most deaths. Geggus points out that at least 3 of every 5 British troops sent there in 1791–1797 died of disease.[117][118] There has been considerable debate over whether the number of deaths caused by disease was exaggerated.[119]
An estimated 37,000 French soldiers were killed in action during the Haitian Revolution,[120] exceeding the total French soldiers killed in action across various 19th-century colonial campaigns in Algeria, Mexico, Indochina, Tunisia, and West Africa, which resulted in approximately 10,000 French soldiers killed in action combined.[121] Between 1793 and 1798, the expedition to Saint-Domingue had cost the British treasury four million pounds (in 1798 money) and 100,000 men either dead, wounded, or permanently disabled from the effects of yellow fever.[122]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution