Armed recruits would later turn on both white and free-colored masters

Evidence

In the next months both sides in the conflict increasingly recruited slaves to fight for them. They assumed that once the conflicts were over, slavery could be rebuilt. In this expectation they were sorely mistaken. For a time the slaves would serve the white and free-colored armies, learning how to fight, biding their time. But in the end many would choose to leave these masters, and all masters, behind. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 411

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: Slaves recruited as soldiers learn warfare while biding time then abandon all masters is itself a powerful narrative engine.