Blocked maroon refuges pushed Haitian slaves toward systemic revolution
Evidence
Indeed it may have been the limits on the expansion of maroon communities that propelled slave revolution, since those who wished to escape slavery had to develop a direct and systemic attack against the world of the plantations rather than seeking a refuge outside it. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 198
Categorization
- QUESTION: This is a causal hypothesis; worth tracing how historiographically contested it is versus the Jamaican maroon path of separate enclaves.