Enslaved people resisted control of burial even under official oversight

Evidence

In the parish of Aquin, in the south, slaves buried their dead near the ruins of the chapel on the site of an early settlement. Attempts to force them to use the official cemetery failed; the slaves just waited until night to bury their dead. So the bodies of those once enslaved were buried alongside the bodies of those once free. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 55

Categorization

• CANDY: Slaves waiting until night to bury their dead in defiance of forced cemetery use is a vivid, self-contained anecdote.