Colonial planters’ pursuit of representation helped place the colonies under revolutionary control

Evidence

A few perceptive participants pointed out the dangerous implications of such a request: if deputies from the colonies were invited to participate in the creation of national policies, they would put the colonies under the control of the Estates General, where antislavery forces would likely find voice. Nevertheless, the group decided to press for national representation. … And the cahiers de doléances produced by the Saint-Domingue delegates explicitly opposed the integration of property-owning free people of color into the political life of the colony. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 258

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• XREF: connects to: Collective civic networks, not individual heroes, enabled the American Revolution’s opening — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 56