Even after emancipation ex-slaves revolted against plantation labor, fearing re-enslavement

Evidence

In May Datty took arms once again. “All the cultivators of the mountains have risen up,” Louverture wrote; they were “destroying provisions” and refusing to deliver what was produced on the plantations. Rumors were circulating that Louverture was planning to “give the country over to the British and return them to slavery,” and some claimed that the French government intended to reestablish slavery. He sent Dessalines to the area with 500 soldiers, who restored order in the area, at least for a time. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 663

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates the core recurring theme of freed people rejecting coerced plantation production that persists throughout the Haitian Revolution narrative.