Both colonial factions armed slaves, wrongly assuming slavery could survive

Evidence

By late November the Western and the Southern Provinces were, like the north, in a state of war. The slaves had not started the war there, but they were a part of it. 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

• XREF: Builds the thread that slave military training during the white/free-colored civil war becomes the lever of the revolution’s radicalization — connecting to the broader ‘Avengers’ thesis that the enslaved seized the weapons offered them.
• SEED: There is an essay angle on how ruling factions everywhere arm excluded groups assuming they will return to the status quo — the Haitian pattern of assuming subalterns armed for you today won’t use those arms against you tomorrow.