Enslaved insurgents decided the free-colored victory over Port-au-Prince’s white radicals.

Evidence

The slaves who had risen up in Cul-de-Sac had saved the freecoloreds—something their leader Pierre Pinchinat would recall when he wrote that the blacks had served as a “rampart” against the whites—and in doing so they opened the way for the final defeat of the white radicals of Port-au-Prince. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 468

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• XREF: Pinchinat’s ‘rampart’ phrasing is a piece of free-colored rhetoric worth comparing to later justifications (Toussaint, Rigaud) of their relation to the enslaved.