Barbadian slaves modeled their 1816 rebellion on the Haitian revolution

Evidence

The governor, though he did “not mean to enter into the origin and nature of slavery,” assured his audience that “Slavery is not the institution of any particular colour, age or country,” and that “Great Britain alone exerts her power to prevent an increase of slavery, and to render those who are now unavoidably in that state every practicable service which benevolence suggests.” The Africans who participated in what they called the Bussa Rebellion knew the situation differently from the governor. They had the “Mingo” revolution (Haiti) as their model, their source of aid, and they knew their benefactor, Great Britain, required their active assistance in the struggle against slavery. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 797

Categorization

• XREF: Haitian revolution as model connects to the later discussion of the Black radical tradition originating partly in the Haitian example; also relevant to the reader’s interest in the tradition’s origins.