Free-coloreds framed slave revolts as leverage for their own political rights

Evidence

The “citizens of color” presented themselves as defenders of the National Assembly, and the whites as rebels against its authority. They demanded the “literal execution of all the points and articles of the decrees and instructions of the National Assembly,” insisting, as Ogé had the year before, that these had granted them political rights. Since they had been illegally excluded from voting, furthermore, they declared that all the assemblies then in existence were illegitimate and must be replaced through new, racially integrated elections. Whites in the region had been furiously resisting any grant of political rights to free-coloreds for years, but with slave revolt looming to the north, times had changed. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 408

Categorization

• QUESTION: How much did conscious framing of the assembly’s authority (rather than revolutionary ideology itself) drive free-colored claims?