Colonial thinkers recognized slave resistance and planter repression formed an escalating cycle

Evidence

Such warnings developed out of a complex network of colonial administrators and Enlightenment intellectuals who came during the last decades of the eighteenth century to believe that slavery had to be reformed and ultimately eliminated. Such thinkers saw clearly that the daily resistance of slaves through poison, suicide, abortion, as well as marronage and revolt, and the violent response of the planters formed a cycle that had to be stopped before it spun out of control. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 211