Ex-slaves saw extortion by local authorities as slavery’s continuation

Evidence

Those who worked on the plantations were not given a large enough share of what they produced. And they suffered daily, and potentially devastating, harassment. “They make us give them our chickens and our pigs when we go to sell them in town, and if we try to complain, we are stopped by the police, and they put us in prison and don’t feed us and we have to pay to get out.” This, the insurgents declared, was “not liberty.” — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 660