What if: Haiti instead of outlawing slavery, just reversed the roles

Ok then why didn't that happen after Haitians literally killed the vast majority (>90%) white population OTL? Surely that would be far more offensive than enslaving them.
But prior to the massacre had not many or most of the white population emigrated to destinations such as Puerto Rico?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_immigration_to_Puerto_Rico#Haitian_Revolution

A massacre should be as offensive if not more than servitude. As people in servitude still has a chance to live, and their is still a possibility for justice to happen.
 
But prior to the massacre had not many or most of the white population emigrated to destinations such as Puerto Rico?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_immigration_to_Puerto_Rico#Haitian_Revolution

A massacre should be as offensive if not more than servitude. As people in servitude still has a chance to live, and their is still a possibility for justice to happen.

Two things:
1) Some of the French population had emigrated by the time of the massacre. I should clarify that the (very rough) 90% figure refers to the percent of whites who were killed who were still in Haiti at the beginning of the massacre. However, my understanding is that while there was a huge amount of emigration previous to the massacre, most of the whites did not flee for various reasons, probably because it was difficult to get out of a warzone. It's kind of hard to get exact numbers though, although we do know things like the number of whites who fled to Cuba/Louisiana reasonably well it's not as well known how many remained.

Also, people internationally were definitely offended by the massacre, given the economic blockade imposed upon Haiti, as well as retaliatory measures against slaves that were taken in other countries to prevent uprisings. But the point I was responding to was people saying that Europeans would invade Haiti if they were to attempt to enslave whites, which I think is preposterous considering that no one tried invading Haiti after they literally killed most of the whites.
2) Can you not do the colors thing? It's really hard to read.
 
African former slaves enslaving white former masters is exceptionally bad precedent. Everyone would, to put it mildly, deeply dislike the thing.
However, mostly everyone deeply disliked the Haitian revolution anyway.
I mean, the massacre of the remaining French whites happened after a long, brutal series of wars against Britain, Spain and France, whom the Haitian leadership all perceived as hell-bent to re-enslave them (quite correctly so).
I my understanding, final abolition of slavery (and presevation of the newly obtained freedom) was the whole point of the revolution, at least after Toussaint had assumed its leadership; Dessalines' massacre was done precisely out of fear of re-enslavement. While this did not prevent other forms of forced labor, enslaving whites would really defeat the whole purpose.
 
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