Enslaved informants were bought with small rewards for their complicity.

Evidence

The ones who betrayed us got a few coins, some new shoes, maybe two days rest from the fields— and because they’ve known the cutting snap of the lash, maybe God can somehow forgive them. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 616

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to ‘On Sacrifice’ themes — the mundane price of betrayal and the moral calculus of complicity under coercion.
• XREF: connects to: Poverty and desperation make entrapment targets vulnerable to paid informants — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 587