The idea and image of black Haitian revolutionaries sent shockwaves throughout white America. That black slaves and freed people might turn violent against whites, so obvious in this image where a black soldier holds up the head of a white soldier, remained a serious fear in the hearts and minds of white southerners throughout the antebellum period. January Suchodolski, Battle at San Domingo, 1845. Wikimedia, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Domingo.jpg.