Brazilian ex-slaves resisted exchanging freedom for proletarianized labor.

Evidence

To preserve emancipation, Louverture decided that he must preserve the plantation economy and encourage the return of white planters who had fled. Locked in conflict with ex-slaves who had a very different vision of what freedom should mean, he maintained and perfected a coercive system that sought to keep them working on plantations. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 28 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Post-emancipation labor systems trapped former slaves by law and poverty.; Former slaves resisted longer labor contracts as a return to slavery — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 770; Ex-slaves’ refusal to sell disciplined labor led Brazilians to import European workers (+2 more)

Related

• Ex-slaves had to surrender freedom to work as cultivators to defend emancipation. (similarity 0.88)
• Louverture forced freed people to stay working on the plantations, opposing their own aspirations (similarity 0.86)
• Louverture preserved emancipation by coercing ex-slaves to keep working plantations (similarity 0.86)
• Ex-slaves’ refusal to sell disciplined labor led Brazilians to import European workers (similarity 0.85)
• Toussaint Louverture preserved emancipation by coercing former slaves to labor (similarity 0.83)
• Former slaves resisted longer labor contracts as a return to slavery (similarity 0.83)
• Louverture tied emancipation to continued plantation labor, clashing with ex-slaves’ aspirations (similarity 0.83)
• Old planters exploited Louverture’s labor decree to threaten re-enslavement (similarity 0.82)
• Revolt empowered individual slaves to seize control of plantations (similarity 0.82)
• Former slaves revolted against Louverture fearing he would restore slavery. (similarity 0.82)
• Louverture forgave planters partly to rebuild the plantation economy. (similarity 0.81)
• Louverture’s plantation regime resembled slavery, differing mainly in paid wages (similarity 0.81)
• Ex-slaves built a subsistence-based rural economy on former plantations (similarity 0.80)
• Saint-Domingue’s abrupt abolition forced administrators to invent a labor regime (similarity 0.80)
• Louverture equated disorder with idleness and demanded child labor on plantations (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Ex-slaves’ refusal to sell disciplined labor led Brazilians to import European workers #expands (0.80)
• Louverture preserved emancipation by coercing ex-slaves to keep working plantations #complicates (0.70) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 28
• Ex-slaves resisted masters’ return while tolerating them as mere residents #expands (0.60)