Former planters misjudged ex-slaves as unchanged by ten years of revolution.

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• Planters were most shocked by the rebellion of their most trusted slaves. (similarity 0.85)
• Freed slaves turned ruined plantations into independent subsistence family plots (similarity 0.84)
• United slave resistance disabled whites’ power to discipline plantations (similarity 0.84)
• Theft laws criminalized former slaves’ access to land’s spontaneous fruits. (similarity 0.83)
• The antislavery universalism of Grégoire inadvertently fueled planters’ fears of slave revolt (similarity 0.83)
• Eighteenth-century slave revolts were led mainly by African-born slaves (similarity 0.82)
• Historians dispute whether slave labor drove capitalist growth (similarity 0.82)
• Some slaves demanded liberty by citing the Rights of Man. (similarity 0.81)
• Free men of color policed slaves, creating a reliance that threatened revolt. (similarity 0.81)
• Slave strikes and labor disruption forced planter concessions and overseer removal (similarity 0.80)
• Hegel’s master-slave dialectic drew on news of the Haitian Revolution (similarity 0.80)
• Marx’s blind spot on slavery descended directly from Aristotle’s philosophy of slaves (similarity 0.80)
• Slaves who fought for France at Cartagena gained their freedom (similarity 0.80)
• The slave trial became a proxy for who should control the Sudan. (similarity 0.79)
• Historical change forces theorists to invent new, more concrete concepts (similarity 0.79)